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but yet, to give everybody a sense of what it was like and i hope i did that eight times and i don't need to read it again. [laughter] >> in terms of was it hard though a lot of people i think have made the mistake saying you've been a recluse the difference between the two words. has it been hard being so public about some of the stuff? some of the stuff you write in the book and talking about bill gates are just downright like i am waiting for the hollywood version of what this is going to play out. would be hard to do that publicly? >> when you write an autobiography like this yor...

legal decisions, how one responds to espionage versus a use of force or an armed attack is different. there are different rules apply as to what one does using law enforcement efforts possibly versus internationally recognized authority to use force. >> guest: sometimes people say well, the u.s. stole intellectual property from britain in the 19th century and is in that part of what helps make us grow? and so should we not criticize the chinese for doing this? my answer is always that we should tell the chinese, steal as many books as you like, and that is not relative to what is goi...

>> it is a pleasure to be here and also to be talking to an audience on c-span through the camera's. i will tell you about the new book of mine by showing the pictures. it is not music on the music stand but notes for me. i think that writing a book is a matter of following an obsession and why your of assessed by something. for me, but all my life had an obsession with a period of the first world war as long as i can remember. it has fascinated me as they grow older and reading history i realize there are good reasons for being fascinated it left 20 million dead, military and civili...

it was a war of multiple illusions. the first illusion was that it would be over quickly and easily. these are berlin students marching off to enlist in 1914. here are german soldiers climbing into a railway car and if you look closely what is written on the car is, to paris. hearer french troops marching off with equal enthusiasm. also getting into trains and written on the side of their training is to berlin. and, here are russian troops celebrating in anticipation of an early and easy victory. and of course, those early and easy victories did not calm. there is a second illusion ...