You sort of have these multiple reinforcements of this process all the while opening cascading throughout the night. Again, thank you very much for coming out helping me to tell these stories. [applause] i am happy to sign books either to you or to any of your holiday gift recipients. Thank you very much for coming out tonight. [inaudible conversations] booktv is on facebook. Like this to get publishing news, schedule updates, behind the scenes pictures and figures. Author information and to talk directly with others during our live program. Facebook. Com booktv. Heres a look at some upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the country. Saturday january 24 is being called National Readathon day by a group. What is National Readathon they . So National Readathon day is a day in january coming at january 24, were all across america we are inviting readers to commit to spend the afternoon reading any books that they like and you can do it at home or in any of the many venues par
For example in wales who was edgar snows wife. There were a lot of them and some of them stayed on. A polish jewish refugee who went to china early in the war to escape the nazis became a member of the Chinese Communist party stayed in china until his death a thing. He was still there. I met him 1980 or 1981 at the American Embassy of all places. Thank you. [applause] their books for sale and you can bring them back here for him to sign. [inaudible conversations] booktv recently visited wheeling West Virginia with the help of the local cable partner comcast. We start a trip with Jeff Rutherford. His book, combating genocide on the eastern front, examines combat and occupation policies of the german army during world war ii. We are with Jeff Rutherford author of combating genocide on the eastern front. Why did you write this book collects. Ive always been interested in the Second World War and the war was between nazi germany and the soviet union so i looked for my dissertation and i wa
Stuffing envelopes and right addresses and 2 was writing in the globes. Now we get beyond the loaves for free. If we who are at this lose the internet the people who we are resisting still have access to the coordinated technology and this enormous multiplier for them through which they can extend their power by millionfold and we dont. So is pretty substantial. Thank you all very much for coming. [applause] thank you again to read and not. [applause] anything you would like at the time. I will happily make your books nonreturnable. [laughter] clergy led me to sit . Do you know . [inaudible conversations] speed manicurists and programs to watch for in the threeday Holiday Weekend at the tv. Welcome to wheeling, West Virginia on tv located in the northern panhandle of the state with the First Capital West Virginia known as the friendly city. Due to its location along the ohio river in Historic National road, wheeling bowed desmond estriol in the early 20th century. It is kind of here in
Forbidding place is a scene of one of the fiercest, bloodiest and least known battles of world war ii. Welcome to war stories. Im oliver north, coming to you from the huertgen forest in germany. These densely wooded hills are quiet now, but from september of 1944 until february of 1945, they thundered with artillery, mortar, machine gun, and tank fire. American generals that hoped for a quick push into germanys industrial heartland, but battle hardened troops were determined to hold their ground. For five months, tens of thousands of american and german soldiers battled each other and harsh terrain and bitter cold that claimed combatants on both sides. With shells bursting in these trees above, well prepared and tenacious german defenders turned the american offensive into a nightmare. For every yard gained, this was the deadliest campaign in the european theater. Stay with us and meet the men, both american and german, who fought to the death in this dark and frightening forest. Its s
Narrative, but it definitely adds layers to it. Interviewer leslie swift , thank you very much. Kurt klein my name is kurt klein , and i was born in a town called waldorf which is very close to heidelberg in germany. Interviewer tell me about your parents and your family . Kurt klein i grew up in the postworld war i era, and of course, those were very difficult times. My parents were struggling to get along during this economic chaos that existed during those times. You may remember, there was this very serious inflation, i mean ludicrous in a sense, such as s has never been seen before and that made it very difficult to carry on. My father had a business that was made extremely difficult because of the Economic Conditions that existed after world war i. He was a broker for hops and tobacco and grain that he would buy from the farmers in the town that we lived in, and my mother helped him all she could. Of course, they, along with so many others, were struggling to exist in those days.