About her new book the great secret the classified world war ii disaster that launched the war on cancer. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. I also want to thank the museum for inviting me to be with you tonight, alas its virtually but i will do my best. It is my first soon presentation so bear with me everyone. Ive had a lot of coffee and im thinking about now i shouldve had a lot of wind, but anyway here we go. Im going to start us off with a quote from winston churchill. He had a way with words. He once observed, may occasionally stumble across the truth, but most of them picked themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. Lieutenant colonel stuart alexander, the remarkable hero of my book, did not hurry off. In fact, he refuse to leave the scene of the military disaster even when churchill himself warned him to. He stayed, he paid attention, he investigated, and as a result he recognized the never before seen symptoms in a group of dying sailors that might have lifesaving
Their stadium at lukel arena , spartak had to come here and accept the voronezh torch here, while the score was 0 0, no one scored, but there was still a whole match ahead, and the last time spartak played here in luzhniki was the final of the russian cup 2 years ago against dynamo, then spartak won with a score of 2 1 and, by the way, the decisive goal at that moment was scored by Quincy Promes, at the moment this is the second match for quince after the resumption after the winter break in the championship he does not play, missed the game with zenit, now he is not at the match with the torch, because when spartak returned from Training Camp from the united arab emirates, he was not allowed on board for the reason that he was caught in a Traffic Accident on the territory of this country disappeared from the scene of the accident and therefore he has a trial scheduled for march 12 in the emirates, moreover, in the netherlands he has already received a sentence of 6 years for smuggling
With lord manner there. The 29th of october, 1932 to completion, one of the largest and fastest liners afloat or general characteristics were length. Overall, 1029 feet beam, 119 feet. Gross tonnage. 79,280. Displacement 65,000 tons. Speed 13 up. Horsepower. 160,000. The ships main propulsion plant was turbo electric drive through force cruise 29 boilers for the turbine the size of the vessel be visualized when it realized any one of the three funnels was large enough to. Hold both tubes or the holland tunnel. The normandy was requisitioned. The Us Government after the outbreak of war in 41, he was transferred the Navy Department on the 24th of december of that year and renamed the uss lafayette. The ship was berth the pier eight north river and work begun converting her to what would transport the conversion included provision or berthing and massing about 4000 officers and men and the installation of necessary ordnance. On the february 1942, as the work of conversion near completion
With lord manner there. The 29th of october, 1932 to completion, one of the largest and fastest liners afloat or general characteristics were length. Overall, 1029 feet beam, 119 feet. Gross tonnage. 79,280. Displacement 65,000 tons. Speed 13 up. Horsepower. 160,000. The ships main propulsion plant was turbo electric drive through force cruise 29 boilers for the turbine the size of the vessel be visualized when it realized any one of the three funnels was large enough to. Hold both tubes or the holland tunnel. The normandy was requisitioned. The Us Government after the outbreak of war in 41, he was transferred the Navy Department on the 24th of december of that year and renamed the uss lafayette. The ship was berth the pier eight north river and work begun converting her to what would transport the conversion included provision or berthing and massing about 4000 officers and men and the installation of necessary ordnance. On the february 1942, as the work of conversion near completion
With lord manner there. The 29th of october, 1932 to completion, one of the largest and fastest liners afloat or general characteristics were length. Overall, 1029 feet beam, 119 feet. Gross tonnage. 79,280. Displacement 65,000 tons. Speed 13 up. Horsepower. 160,000. The ships main propulsion plant was turbo electric drive through force cruise 29 boilers for the turbine the size of the vessel be visualized when it realized any one of the three funnels was large enough to. Hold both tubes or the holland tunnel. The normandy was requisitioned. The Us Government after the outbreak of war in 41, he was transferred the Navy Department on the 24th of december of that year and renamed the uss lafayette. The ship was berth the pier eight north river and work begun converting her to what would transport the conversion included provision or berthing and massing about 4000 officers and men and the installation of necessary ordnance. On the february 1942, as the work of conversion near completion