Offensive. Thank you for hosting this fabulous book festival. I am happy to be participating in this. And delighted tonight to have a conversation with doug stanton. He was a Brilliant Writer and author and a fellow midwesterner to request lake michigan. Which if any of you that do not know, was the premier for the event in america. When they bring in people like atwood and people like me once in a while. [laughter] he has written several wonderful books, in harms way. About the indianapolis four soldiers, about the first batch of american troops in afghanistan after 9 11 on horses. And soon to be a motion picture, we might talk about a little bit later. And his new book, the odyssey of echo company. Which is not a subject that is part of my life as well, the vietnam war. Im delighted to have a conversation about that. Doug, when we start with how this idea sort of wash over you for this book. Thank you for the nice introduction. Thank you to everyone for being here this evening. The i
Conversation with doug stanton. He was a Brilliant Writer and author and a fellow midwesterner to request lake michigan. Which if any of you that do not know, was the premier for the event in america. When they bring in people like atwood and people like me once in a while. [laughter] he has written several wonderful books, in harms way. About the indianapolis four soldiers, about the first batch of american troops in afghanistan after 9 11 on horses. And soon to be a motion picture, we might talk about a little bit later. And his new book, the odyssey of echo company. Which is not a subject that is part of my life as well, the vietnam war. Im delighted to have a conversation about that. Doug, when we start with how this idea sort of wash over you for this book. Thank you for the nice introduction. Thank you to everyone for being here this evening. The idea for the odyssey of echo company came to me in afghanistan. Which would have been our most recent foray into counterinsurgency in t