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And now joining us is trans and. We do nonfiction books. Any types of nonfiction books . Music, pop culture, military history and a lifelong boat. What are some of the books coming out this season that you want to talk to us about . Free big militaries. The first is on or before glory and its about a segregated unit of japanese soldiers who actually volunteered to serve while they were in internment camps. They went on to be known as the gopher broke regiment. They said what is known as the last battalion, 200 soldiers who could not break free from the german enemy. It was a nailbiting buck and one that makes you proud to be an american. We have another book in eastern france. This is in the mountains of eastern afghanistan. This is called the chosen few who is a veterans reporter in usa today. A d. C. Favorite it were. Its about a Single Company of u. S. Paratroopers that was chosen to put it nicely, to go and try to win hearts and minds in the mouths of afghanistan. When they got the
Here. And when he called me, i thought, yeah, why not . [laughter] this is not, you know, this is not my politics, but why not . Host is football the National Pastime . Guest absolutely. Ive decided that the book is wrongly titled. It ought to be national obsession. I think its, i think its reached that level in the last particularly the last decade. Host how . Guest its become a 365dayayear topic for massive numbers of americans. You listen to sports talk radio no matter what time of year, what time of day, what time of night, somebody will be talking about football, and particularly about nfl football. And the nfl has understood the ability t get into that mindset and to extend it in the sense that they have created sort of of pseudoevents to fill the off season. Theres no longer an off season in the nfl. Once the super bowl is over, then the combines begin, and then from the combines you go to the draft. The first predraft analysis, drafts, mock drafts, draft analysis, then you go t
Stephen harding targets an american soldier and the final flight through japan in the book last to die. Publishers weekly calls the book a meticulously researched tale. While harding expresses a commitment as a journalist and historian to remaining objective and not emotionally attached to the individual stories to be told, he admits to his personal connection with tony from his service in the vietnam war to his detailed journalism of American Military affairs, harding is very well suited to share tonys legacy of patriotism. Stephen harding is the author of eight previous books including the New York Times bestseller the last battle, he is a longtime journalist, for nearly two decades, he was on the staff of u. S. Soldiers, the initial newspaper of the u. S. Army. Currently, he is the editor this chief of military history magazine. His contributions on defense topics in aviation, military and maritime history, have appeared in the San Francisco chronicle, air and space smithsonian, wor
Next military historian Stephen Harding recalls the death of the last american killed in combat in world war ii. [inaudible conversations] hello everybody, welcome tonight. This is politics and prose at busboys and poets. I am here hosting the event with Stephen Harding and his book last to die. I want to make a short note. Tonight we have cspan live here filming the event so we will have them here. Also just to make you aware we have politics and prose are sponsoring this event. We are in three new busboys locations. We host events here and we are here at the tacoma location and also at the birkeland location so you can see us there as well. One of the great benefit to being here you can order food throughout the event and love to have you do that. You can purchase the book at the front of the store. As i mentioned tonight we have Stephen Harding here. World war ii in japan officially ended in ceasefire but there were a few final moments the americans Stephen Harding chronicles tony m