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. d-day. when we think about world war ii and when world war ii shows up in popular culture, it is often d-day. the sort of brave, heroic moment when the allies, the americans
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patrick o donnell is a military historian a military strenuous written a previous but, beyond valor, operative spies and saboteurs, the printer assignment, day care return to missouri wines selected for the mind, not professional reading list. give me tomorrow and dog company. his most recent is the first first seals. the numerous words are the way nick obey award in the oss sean baller word. has also provided consultation with band of brothers and for documentaries produced by bbc, the history channel and fox news. he served as a combat historian and a mean by full platoon during the battle of falluja and is in demand as an expert speaker on world war ii sabotage from the special operations and counterinsurgency on the battlefield. over the past 20 years, o donnell has interviewed more than 4000 now 5000 veterans wanted america s worst world war i to afghanistan and specializes in unearthing and told stories that read like novels. please welcome patrick k. o donnell.
over the past 20 years he has interviewed 4,000, 5,000 veterans as part of america s wars from world war i afghanistan specializing in untold stories that read like novels. please welcome patrick o donnell. [applause] it is really a pleasure and honor to be here. the beginning of my book tour, just came out this week. as jim said i have interviewed 5,000 world war ii veteran, spent an entire lifetime studying world war ii and the stories i will tell you tonight or today is an untold story. most interesting story i have never come across in all the years i have been on this earth. the story begins right here in washington d.c. only a few blocks away, is november 17th, 1942, and it is newly built, only been there since 1933 and is host for presidents and galas and everything else but that night in 1942 the doors of the pool were barred by armed guards and tested something that was unique. this was the precursor of scuba and the beginning of the navy seals begins in that pool
count down 100 days to the winter olympic games today, tuesday, october 29th, 2013. captions paid for by nbc-universal television this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. good morning, everyone. welcome to today on a tuesday morning. i m savannah guthrie. i m matt lauer. along side al, i m thinking back to a year ago today, and you were talking about those competing european models and the united states model. the european model won out, and people up and down the east coast lost. that s right. we were talking about it almost a week ahead of time, and the worst happened. of course, it could have been a lot worse. we re going to look at the lessons that have been learned in one year. guys. all right, al. thank you very much. meantime, we want to turn to today s top story. the renewed uproar over the nsa s spying program, but the man in charge has his feet held to the fire later today. nbc s chief foreign af