Youre watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. BookTv Television for serious readers. From my father i inherited my confidence my resilience, my passion, and my audacity, looking back although it was never explained to me in this way, he taught me the spirit of which is greek idea of honor and doing the right thing, even when ones own interests or even ones own life is in peril. Growing up while i never fought anything but australian there were two stories about the Second World War and greece that i always kept close to my heart. The first was in 1940 when Benito Mussolini italys Prime Minister asked the greek Prime Minister for free passage through greece and on the spot at 3 00 in the morning without hesitation, without consultation he said oy he said no. It was spirited defiance and quite incredible when considering just how vastly outnumbered the greeks were by the italians. It prompted sir winston churchhill, the greatest figure of the 20th c
Youre watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Booktv, television for serious readers. Rebecca frankel is the author of war dogs. Ms. Frankel, whats on the cover of your book . So this is a handler and his dog, and theyre doing a Training Exercise for a mission that they might have to do in afghanistan or iraq which does include a drop from a helicopter. What sparked you to write about war dogs . My job in foreign policy, weve been writing about the iraq war for as long as its been going on and i really love dogs. So as i was looking at photos coming in off the wire, i saw this one photo that sort of stood out as different in afghanistan, and it was because there were these marines and their bombsniffing dogs, and they were just hanging out, and everyone looked very happy. Theres a very strong contrast to the unfortunate photos that are more gritty and more gory. So tom suggested that we partner in [inaudible] and i did that for about four years an
Colleagues held behind bars in egypt just for doing their jobs. And restoring a picture palace to glory. Todays friday arts. We begin tonight with a search for answers in another school shooting. It happened this afternoon in washington state. Police say a freshman opened fire in front of the marysville pillchuck high school. Allen schauffler is live. What do we know about the victims . They are being treated at two local hospitals. A student shot in the jaw is in the hospital, they say his injuries are serious but we understand he should be okay. The other 30 are in Critical Condition the other three are in Critical Condition, in fact very Critical Condition, two young women one young man all of them with gunshot wounds to the head. This happened they cafeteria at marysville pillchuck high. When a young man by the name of Jaylen Fryberg pulled out a gun and started shooting. The room cleared, someone hit a fire alarm. Someone called 911 there was a Massive Police response and that cam
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