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In the last few months is so debased and wave. Its unlawful, its immoral that the book shows yet again that there are two things that torture absolutely guarantees. One is pain and the other is false information. Booktv continues now. Toby harnden recounts a british battalions efforts to prevent the taliban from seizing a province of afghanistan while awaiting the arrival of u. S. Marines in 2009. Mr. Harnden discusses his book with dan lamothe National Security reporter for the washington post. Its about an hour. Host toby thanks for joining me today on after words. I am dan lamothe and i run...

Bush has just been released in the United States. Its about a unit traveling in afghanistan in 2009 that its all quite a bit of combat. I hoped you could explain about the title of the book. Guest it isnt a very famous poem but the Company Commander was killed in action in june 2009. His mother had sent a collection because his company was an amalgam of other companies to sort of build up the decor and he was referring to the companies. That company being in the suspended animation. He was trying to say to them you are the reincarnation for the second world war. This was a way of unifying them...

Suspended animation since the end of the Second World War and so he was trying to say to them, you are a reincarnation of these men from the Second World War. Youre theyre descendents. Youre dead men risen, and this was way of unidentifying them and became a theme of the book because the three main characters lieutenant the Battalion Commander, the Company Commander, and the pursuing commander were all killed in action and those three levels of leaders have been killed in a british battalion since the korean war. Sense their testimony from the grave is at the core of the book and theyre dead m...

Overwhelming against it. I was drug czar, director of National Drug control policy, 8 990. We didnt have this kind of research then. We had some, smattering. But now it is overwhelming, the harm that marijuana does. And i just have to believe or want to believe the American People are not informed of these facts. And so the point of the book was to get these facts out so they can make a second judgment on this, an informed decision. Let me get to the end of my story. I think in colorado which has been kind of ground zero here, that they will reconsider at the end of the day. Host uhhuh. Guest ...

Los Angeles Times festival of books. On your screen the campus of the university of Southern California, home of this 20th annual festival. Yesterday we covered programs on journalism publishing, World Leaders and more, and today we continue our live festival coverage with author panels on u. S. History, california history and crime. Youll also be able to talk with authors such Azzam Quinones and ben shapiro. Theyll sit down with us on our outdoor set to answer your questions via twitter and by phone. Check booktv. Org for a complete schedule of todays events, and you can see schedule updates ...