Destination casablanca, recently published by public affairs. She is a historian and a Senior Writer for the magazine, humanities, which is the quarterly review of the National Endowment for the humanities and among her scholarly credits are articles in holocaust and genocide studies and intelligent intelligence and national security. She has also written for the new york times, salon, long reads and other periodicals. She received her phd from American University and today, she will be speaking on the new a book, destination casablanca. Meredith hindley. Thank you all for coming this afternoon. I would like to thank the Wilson Center and the National History center for inviting me to give this talk today. I want to start not with africa,ca and not with but with another invasion during the war. Dday. When we think about world war ii and when world war ii shows up in popular culture, it is often dday. The sort of brave, heroic moment when the allies, the americans and the western allies