they look at human suffering and we hear the words like 400,000 people are suffering during the famine getting those numbers don't quite register because we don't think of them as quite one of us you and me and i think that the portrait of this isn't the sort of political stand and then you start understanding and think of them as this fund 19-year-old that speaks to the great leader and the world they live in i think the more and more you fall in love with them, is that the leaders would begin to care so that it doesn't just enable the factor or its coverage is holding the handles of the comic relief of the great leader that i think is really, really wrong with the media to focus on it because it's not that funny.

it is the most violent and sad and tragic horrific place. >> where did you get the title "without you, there is no us"? >> my students always saying coming to the cafeteria. and marching like soldiers. it's one of the songs they would sing without you there is no us, without us there is no motherland. of course you is the great mother leaders of that always stuck with me and i would hear that song. sometimes i would just hum it. i would walk to the cafeteria and we would sit down and then i kind of -- even here in new york i would be humming that's on the site became almost like a daily

ritual. without you, there is no us. >> suki kim is the author of without you there is no us my time with the elite a memoir. it comes out in october >> here's a look at some of the bet selling nonfiction books according to "the wall street journal." at the top of the list is hillary rodham clinton's memoir, "hard choices." scholastic titles mine craft follow in second and third respectively. retired neurosurgeon ben carson is fourth with his take on several issues facing the country in "one nation." fifth on the list is "jesus calling" by sarah young followed by "strengths finder 2.0." t.d. jakes comes in seventh with "instinct."

thomas piketty is eighth with "capital," reporting on wealth and income inequality in europe and the united states since the 18th century. best selling authors of freak to mommics, are ninth with their latest book, "think like a freak." and wrapping up the list is laura hillen brand's story of a world war ii lieutenant's survival in "unbroken." that's this month's list of nonfiction bestsellers according to the "wall street journal." >> so i tell the story about how i, every aspect of whose identity is in one way or another a threat to israel, my gender is male, my religion is muslim, my citizenship is american, but my nationality is iranian, my ethnicity is persian, my culture is middle eastern. everything about me is, sends off, you know, all the warning

signals for israel. and so the experience of an iranian-american, single man trying to get through ben-gurion airport in, you know, in the 21st century is a reminder to everyone that despite the way that globalization has brought us closer and has diminished the boundaries that separate us as nations, as ethnicities, as people and as cultures, despite all of that, all you've got to do is spend a few minutes trying to get through ben-gurion airport to remember that those divisions, those things that separate us are still very much alive. >> best selling author reza aslan will take your phone calls, e-mails on tweets on islamic fundamentalism, the war on terror and the current instability in the middle east live for three hours sunday at noon eastern on booktv's "in depth," part of a three-day holiday weekend of nonfiction

books and authors. booktv, television for serious readers. >> host: lissa warren is now joining us on booktv here at bookexpo america, the publishers' annual trade show. lissa, what do you do, and who do you work for? >> i'm the senior director of publicity at da capo press. >> host: what kinds of books do you publish? >> guest: primarily history, military history, biography. >> host: and how was it founded? when was it founded? >> guest: 50 years ago. in fact, thank you for asking, this is our 50th anniversary. we're very proud to be around in a business that's a tough business these days. >> host: what are some of the titles? you've got quite a few military histories coming out in the fall. >> guest: one that i'm particularly fond of is crucible of command, and it's written by

william c. davis. he looks very much at their time in battle with each other, but also at their personal lives and weaves it all together very nicely. we also have a book called "first field" by patrick k. o'donnell, he's someone that's done many books for us, and this is one that looks at the origin of the navy seals unit; how it started with a dentist and an archaeologist ask people you would -- and people you would not think would ever be the ones running into your toughest situations. but these four men are the ones who founded this unit and made it what it is today. we also have a book coming out that is called "soldier of misfortune," and that is, perhaps, the saddest title on our list. it's about private eddie slovic who enlisted in world war ii and quickly realized that he just could not do the war thing. so he decided he would rather spend the war in jail for

deserting than fighting and possibly getting killed. unfortunately, general eisenhower felt that he needed to make an example of someone who had deserted, and he arranged for private eddie slovic to be executed on u.s. soil by americans for desertion, and that is the last time in history, thankfully, that an american has been executed for desertion. but that poor man and his poor family, who lost him because he simply could not hack the war. so those are three of the military history titles we have coming out, and the one i've saved for last is our christmas military history title by stanley wine straub. he also is a mainstay, and he is someone who is a veteran himself. he's a veteran of the korean war. and this book is about korea, and it is about when macarthur promised the troops they would be home for christmas with their families and neglected to fulfill that promise. i