Please keep the spirit of lit fest going all year long with a subscription. This year we are also introducing a new digital bookstore. Please take one of our promo cards for information about the app and axis the special book deals. Before they can todays program please file ensure cell phones. You return your camera flash off. We will allow you to take pictures. You can post those pictures online using hashtag printers row. Gives me great pleasure to introduce to you guys are moderate todays conversation, eric banks. Mr. Banks. Thank you. Thank you very much. Welcome everybody. Its good to see you here this morning and its my pleasure to welcome today Monique Brinson demery, the author of the amazing book, finding the dragon lady the mystery of vietnams madame nhu, which has recently been published by Public Affairs books. She holds a masters degree from harvard university, and when she made contact with madame nhu who was the unofficial first lady of the south east government in 2005
That the germans i find out if it had even 24 hours of warning that this invasion force is coming to normandy rather than some other point on the french coast. It couldve been, probably wouldve been. To the anxiety level is unbelievable when isenhour has to postpone it, makes the decision to postpone it. So june 6th is the day we celebrate as dday. Number of troops, number of deaths . Well, there are five divisions ago when over the beaches basically. Two american in three british and canadian. And then there are three airborne divisions. Altogether you talk about a couple hundred thousand troops going in on june 6. Most of the deaths the worst beach was omaha, where one of the two american beaches. There were several thousand deaths there. There had been concerned that the number of deaths could run in the tens of thousands and this did not happen. By no means were the casualties light, but they were less than anticipated at utah beach, which was the furthest right invasion. The briti
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