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Welcome back to booktv on cspan2. Live coverage of the 2017 National Book festival. Condoleeza rice interviewed by one of the major sponsors of the festival, david reubenstein. Over in the history and biography room, ben mcintyre has started his talk. Well bring that to you live in progress. It is about special forces during world war ii. Rogue heroes is the name of the book. Then effectively run away back into the desert. It sound like a simple idea and indeed it was, but in many ways it was completely revolutionary because many of the middleranking officers at that point had a very static idea hom war is fought. This came from the first world war. The idea two large armies will meet in a large space and fight it out until one of them wins. What sterling was recommending completely different and completely revolutionary. He got permission to start recruiting and he set about doing this in very particular way. He was looking for pe ....