Peter i am going to go ahead and turn it over to john. I want to start with something i read in the introduction. Just absolutely fascinated by. And it is about your father. It is really a lovely story. Irwin silber. Book, published a songs of the civil war. He was not like a diehard civil war buff. He was not that kind nina he did like to sing the songs. Peter i have a question about your father. This is what you wrote. This book is not about my father civil war. It is partly about the people who created the civil war my father came to love as well as those who created the kind of civil war that he despised. So tell us, what did you mean by that . How can that help us sort of frame your book . Then we will turn it over to john. Nina so i think come in terms of the kind of the civil war that he came to love, i guess i would say that was the civil war i am going to say it was the civil war created by the popular front. By that, i mean this sort of loose coalition of civil rights organiz
As fortunately tears ever more wildfires. Sydney reports, its hot as november night since records began and Clay Richardson welcome to the show. Now sources say more than 100 people have been killed in a brutal massacre in the countrys north west. Why witnesses said militants on motorcycles rounded up until farmers who were bringing in their harvest in northern a borno state. In nigeria, no one has claimed responsibility, but jihadist groups have attacked the area in recent years. The victims of that reached the massacre laid to rest in a mass burial. The 13 pool say the farm workers were attacked by armed insurgents on motorbikes. While they were harvesting rice, someone shot others with their throats cut. It is that there were 6 of us in the bush. Then we headed back into the village. We were shocked when we got there. Like on the move, we found the bodies and that was where the main killings took place. Then we went through a nearby village called good though. We met so many people
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