I want my audience members to know, i want to bring this to you from head or high water. Hopefully just had. We have interruptions, i want to apologize before him for technical difficulties with the pending storm but its my pleasure to get this program started by passing it on to the museums stone historian and executive director of our institute for the study of war and democracy. Thanks and welcome to everyone from louisiana. Quite literally in the path of the storm, a few hours from the eye of the hurricane. The world is getting a lot of the ladder and we hope we dont get any today. We are really excited about todays program. Every now and then, you get to interview and author in the case of this particular author, this might be difficult but hes a writer, best selling author of numerous spy among friends great the trail, a great hes written and presented these documentaries of his work. He is a star in the field. Ben mcintyre welcome to the National World war ii about. Thank you so
I wanted to apologize beforehand for the technical difficulties from the storm but now its my pleasure to get this program started high passing it on to the Museum Samuel jones Senior Historian and dr. Robert citina wholl be leading todays conversation. Senate thanks jeremy and welcomes everyone from beautiful new orleans louisiana. Quite literally in the path of the storm quite literally a few hours from now and eye of the hurricane so we hope everything goes smoothly and i like would jeremy said heck or high water. We hope we dont get any today. Having said that im really excited about todays program. Every now and then in my line of work you get to interview an author that you feel like youve. Every word they have published in this particular authors case that might be difficult but some six as a writer at large for the times and the bestselling up of numerous books this the spy and the traitor and operation mincemeat doublecrossed operation mincemeat a book that many of our audienc
Published in 2017. He has a bachelor of arts in comparative literature from princeton. A bachelor of music in opera from the Eastman School of music, and a ph. D from stanford university. She has been a member of the George Mason University facility since 2011 and i just learned this evening she has recently been elected. In thinking about the subject, french memories of the war far america, were encouraged to contemplate experiences from the u. S. War for independence from multiple perspectives in time. There is a time that french officers recorded in their memoirs, but in writing memmemo, there is also looking back into the past to recollect whether it be hours, days, or years later. It is likely that he wrote them in part after his military degr career had come to a close. Memory and magic have a role here. We that look forward to it being significance and influence in france. The latter line of inquiry has been of particular interest of historians that long sought to trace the infl
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