For example in wales who was edgar snows wife. There were a lot of them and some of them stayed on. A polish jewish refugee who went to china early in the war to escape the nazis became a member of the Chinese Communist party stayed in china until his death a thing. He was still there. I met him 1980 or 1981 at the American Embassy of all places. Thank you. [applause] their books for sale and you can bring them back here for him to sign. [inaudible conversations] booktv recently visited wheeling West Virginia with the help of the local cable partner comcast. We start a trip with Jeff Rutherford. His book, combating genocide on the eastern front, examines combat and occupation policies of the german army during world war ii. We are with Jeff Rutherford author of combating genocide on the eastern front. Why did you write this book collects. Ive always been interested in the Second World War and the war was between nazi germany and the soviet union so i looked for my dissertation and i wa
Stuffing envelopes and right addresses and 2 was writing in the globes. Now we get beyond the loaves for free. If we who are at this lose the internet the people who we are resisting still have access to the coordinated technology and this enormous multiplier for them through which they can extend their power by millionfold and we dont. So is pretty substantial. Thank you all very much for coming. [applause] thank you again to read and not. [applause] anything you would like at the time. I will happily make your books nonreturnable. [laughter] clergy led me to sit . Do you know . [inaudible conversations] speed manicurists and programs to watch for in the threeday Holiday Weekend at the tv. Welcome to wheeling, West Virginia on tv located in the northern panhandle of the state with the First Capital West Virginia known as the friendly city. Due to its location along the ohio river in Historic National road, wheeling bowed desmond estriol in the early 20th century. It is kind of here in
Can spread to the german forces. So its this idea of necessity. The only way were going to win this war is if we have a pacified population behind the lines who isnt trying to link up with the red army or with partisan units to cut our throats during the night. So during this period from 4243, early 43 i think we see this concerted attempt by at least elements of the german army in the east to work with the soviet population. So this, i think breaks somewhat from this ideological conception of the war. I think if we look at this from that ideological perspective the idea would be as things get tougher, the the germans would become more prone to wage the war that hitler wanted. And instead what we see is that they break away from that right . They see the best way they can win the war is if they are able to mobilize the soviet civilian population. So this was one of the very interesting things that i came up with during my the course of my research and writing the book. For more informa
Tonight. Next summer Harvard Universitys himelfarb two, author of trade author of the sense of style, discusses how to improve the quality of our writing. Professor pinker says while texting and the internet are putting for developing bad writing habits, writing well has always been a difficult task. The event was held at barnes noble booksellers in new york city. It is just over an hour. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to barnes noble. I am pleased to welcome tonights guest, professor Steven Pinker from the department of psychology at harvard here to introduce his new book, the sense of style the sense of style on trade the sense of style the thinking persons guide to writing in the 21st century. It has garnered multiple accolades among them he was being named foreignpolicy list of 100 global thinkers in times the hundred most influential people in the world today. Please join me in welcoming Steven Pinker and the sense of style. Thank you. Why is so much writing so back .
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