it was on april the 28th, 1945 in the morning that they said, children, the american army's very close. there could be shooting. we'll be safer in the basement. they took us down to the basement. i got a hold of an apple cart that looked out through the window, and i saw the american come up the hill, how can i describe to you the jubilation in my heart of knowing finally to be free. how can i possibly describe to you the jubilation? feeling that this nightmare was finally over. now, 68 years later and four generations strong, i stand before you a very proud and grateful man, grateful for the opportunity that this greatest country on earth gave me to start a new life, to raise a family, and to live in freedom and liberty. >> for more information on booktv's recent visit to raleigh, north carolina and the many other cities visited by our local content vehicles, go to c-span.org/localcontent.

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american army private bradley manning is now on trial for feeding government secrets to wiki leaks and could end up spending a lifetime in prison because of it the prosecution suggested the twenty five year old had close ties with the editor of the whistle blowing web site something that could backfire on both many and a sound as the case progresses what is under blake has the story. private bradley manning twenty five year old army intelligence officer is accused of giving military files to the website wiki leaks in turn aiding the enemy according to military prosecutors though those prosecutors said that when private manning uploaded files the anti-secrecy website wiki leaks he did so with the intent to harm. or to protect now supporters of manning gather here to a rally in support of the soldier move that they deem a robot whistleblower but prosecutors painted a much different picture by the end when army prosecutors delivered their opening remarks they said that private manning was someone who knowingly and willingly went to wiki leaks with the purpose of bringing harm to the unite

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just because they're the army they're advancing a political cause absolutely and so whatever the american army doesn't more than others. that may be the core of the mistrust that exists does hearing or the others using violence for advancing political cause know all armies all armies are advancing a political cause it is the cause that the political structure in their country is determined but congressman look at the history of your country and the recent history of your country you use violence abroad more than any other country there is nothing wrong with using violence against terrorist or adolf hitler or any other forces while adult people there was and you know long time ago but no there's been a lot of little laid off hitlers throughout the history of our world and there's been a lot of men recently let me make this into you like this little adele hitler so you also succeeded in killing a lot of innocent civilians whether you call it a noble cause or not in iraq for example you killed well by even the most. conservative estimate of more than one hundred thousand that's really. what you t

because they're in the army they're advancing a political cause absolutely and so whatever the american army does it more than others and that may be the core of the mistrust that exists does here and more than others using violence for advancing political cause know all armies all armies are advancing a political cause it is the cause that the political structure in their country is determined but congressman look at the history of your country and the recent history of your country you use violence abroad more than any other country there is nothing wrong with using violence against terrorists or adolf hitler or any other forces while adult people there was and you know long time ago but no there's been a lot of little laid off hitlers throughout the history of our world and there's been a lot of men recently i mean you know efficiency like this little adult hitler so you also succeeded in killing a lot of innocent civilians whether you call it a noble cause enough in iraq for example you killed well by even the most. conservative estimates more than one hundred thousand that's really why

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>> guest: well, the american army put 89 divisions into the field. about two-thirds of those are in europe. all little less than a third in the pacific. all six marine divisions, u.s. marine corps divisions are in the pacific yet most of the navy is in the pacific and putting all of the aircraft carriers. and most of the bigger battle ships and heavy cruisers and so on. when you look at it that way, you can see that the wage between the pacific there and the atlantic it is pretty evenly split. but when you look in terms of manpower, you can see that it was given to fighting the germans. this is because the decision had been made early in 1942 of the principal called germany first. roosevelt, churchill and the senior commanders believed if you could defeat the axis powers than the others would fall from the tree like rotten fruit. this is the important principle of the war that turned out to be true. that's why you see the weight is placed on your up even though that is the japanese that have defended us initially in the most grievously with the attac

through the camp but the americans didn't know it at the time, the man at the camp worked for the klan destined special operations executive for soe which was churchill's secret army. soe have been granted control of albania when says the office of strategic services which is the american equivalent carve the world into zones controlled by one of the other or shared by both. the majority of the british officers had received the same type of training as other soe officers but -- so the basic course recommend the same as those taught in britain. there were some specialty courses offered such as climbing and meal management in a mountain warfare school in lebanon. one officer found the management class was the most useful course. instead of being working in other countries these men wore uniforms that could withstand the harsh conditions of the mountain caves in which they operated criminal warfare. some including curley told slippers or fesses the battle dress with standard. the first handful of men had arrived in april 1943 to help the resistance groups fight the italians. to them it's growing frustration the resistance were -- than anything else. by october 1940 3

kids and an unbelievable life to look forward to he said it can't be that i was a soldier in the american armyod up for freedom, and i can't vote. >> michael: evars dedicated his life to trying to break through what he called the cotton curtain. he rallied people to boycott businesses that wouldn't serve african-americans and petitioned for equal air time for african-americans on television. after he was rejected by the university of mississippi school of law, he fought get other african-americans into the school. on june 12, 1984 he was murdered outside of his home by byron de la beckwith. jerry mitchell has reported extensively on the life, death and legacy of medgar evers. he joins me tonight from that city in mississippi. jerry thanks as always for coming on the show. you know -- >> good to be here. >> michael: edgar evars was killed in 1983 but the killer wasn't convicted for another 40 years, thanks in part to your reporting which reopened the cold case. why was there seemingly no interest in finding his murder for so long? >> it was pretty obvious who the murder was, byron de la beckwit

murder the cold blooded brutality of the occupation captured on film it was leaked by a young american soldier army private bradley manning the video was uploaded to wiki leaks but it would prove to be just the tip of the iceberg the former army intelligence analyst leaked more than seven hundred thousand documents containing classified information to that whistle blowing web site they included reports of torture abuse higher than acknowledge civilian casualties in short an unvarnished view of america's wars now known as the afghanistan and iraq war logs in may arrest seeking approval for his actions manning began a dialogue with a hacker named adrian lebo chat logs that turned over to the government leading to manning's arrest and subsequent confinement now what came next was what proved to be one of the longest military pretrial detentions of a u.s. soldier since the vietnam war bradley manning was held in maximum security solitary confinement in a cell his attorney says was no bigger than six by eight feet and as the number of charges grew against manning to twenty two he was allowed to plead gu

. >> holman: an american soldier pleaded guilty today to killing 16 afghan civilians last year. army staff sergeant robert bales appeared at joint base lewis-mcchord outside seattle. he told a military judge that he entered two afghan villages at night and shot each victim, most of them women and children. asked why he did it, bales answered: "there's not a good reason in this world." if the judge accepts the plea, bales will avoid the death penalty. in turkey, anti-government activists demanded the ouster of police chiefs over a violent crackdown on protests. they met with the deputy prime minister, and also called for lifting restrictions on civil liberties and banning police use of tear gas. meanwhile, thousands of trade union members marched in istanbul and ankara. they waved banners and chanted slogans demanding that prime minister erdogan resign. family, friends and fellow lawmakers gathered in new york today for the funeral of new jersey senator frank lautenberg. hundreds of mourners, including a number of dignitaries, attended today's service at a manhattan synagogue. vice pr

when their reinforcements are there and the british -- they are still in philadelphia but they american armiesnd ready for conflict in the set all right you can come if you can find a way. as it happens benedict arnold cannot ride a horse but washington wants to see him. benedict arnold is still washington's favorite fighting general. don't forget, benedict arnold is known as the hero. if you've been to the saratoga battlefield you know that's a section of it also known as the eagle of saratoga. he is revered by his men. he is incredibly brave and does things other sections of the army can't. he also supported and paid for ammunition and closed his men for all of all of the battles that i just mentioned in congress, guess what? they haven't paid them back so he has lost a lot of money and a lot of his fortune. his health is roomed and he doesn't think washington stood up for him because when he is finally made a major general as long after younger men with not as much distinguished service and he was not publicly announced. he is pretty upset with washington and upset with congress. he is not

george patent saved the american army after north africa. we can go on and on. i was looking particularly at situations that had chronological sweep. athens, all the way to david petraeus and the surge. i was looking for things that were pessimistic. i think we could have won without patent. i don't think, you take away domestically and burned out greece to occupy the greeks would have fought or without they would not have recovered much of the western part roman empire. i don't think there was a union general alive who could have taken atlanta at the cost we took it very small cost compared to what was going on in virginia and i don't know anybody who could have done what matthew ridgeway. i wish i could say there were american generals. two or one, that it what david petraeus did. i was trying to look at unique individual chronologically that try to remind us even the here toic, era of high-tech, the human qualities remain across time and space. >> host: few historians would dispute that some of the people you select were indeed saviors of the country. i think

geographic" magazine recounts the emergency landing of a military transport plane carrying 26 american army and air force medics and flight nurses into nazi occupying albania in november of 1943. this is about an hour. [applause]

army. the major american force in the invasion of normandy, and then he commands an army group, which twice or more armies, the largest armed force that the u.s. army has ever put overseas. i think the is promoted beyond his natural level of competence. used to be called the peter prim and it's hard to not feel also sorry for him. that's a steep learning curve to go from commanding a corps to commanding an army group in a very short period of time. i think that he, again,es not a natural battle captain. i'm pretty hard in my assessments of him. he wrote two memoirs. you mentioned "a soldier's story." he also wrote a book "a general's life" which was published posthumously. he outlived almost everybody else from that generation and had a large role in shaping his own reputation and shaping the narrative of post war. he was the consultant on the movie, patton, that came out in 1970. and so consequently what you see with omar bradley is the benefit of longevity. he managed to help shape our general belief he was a hero, as a general, and a very competent general. i don't feel that is entirely

reporter: through it all, american g.i.s were perhaps the best behaved soldiers of world war ii. >> there were 12,000 men charged with felonies in europe in 1944-45. that's out of an armyonicling american soldiers as they fought across europe and north africa. in a sense, he has spent the past 14 years living with american g.i.s as they press forward in the face of death and kill time in the months of occupation. what should people know about the american soldiers who fought in europe for the liberation of europe? >> the notion that all the brothers wereville yant and all the sisters were virtuous is nonsense. that's now how it works in a war. we should know that whether it's a war that happened 70 years ago or whether it's a war that's underway now, war really flays open the soul. >> reporter: and we should know that more than 9,000 of the americans who came ashore at normandy lie buried in france. okay, team! after age 40, we can start losing muscle -- 8% every 10 years. wow. wow. but you can help fight muscle loss with exercise and ensure muscle health. i've got revigor. what's revigor? it's the amino acid metabolite, hmb to help rebuild muscle and strength naturall

the coastal defense hadn't been fired in 20 years and the army had them protect even a single american city. the building of the armed forces was likened to the reconstruction of the dinosaur a round three vertebrae. then from the second in the trilogy of the battle from beginning to end, allied war making in the mediterranean tended to be in improvisational, and finally, from the guns at last flight which just came out you wrote the cohesion and the total coherence of the allied coalition had a shared victory the better alliance one, certainly it was possible to look at the war making on any given day and feel heartsick of the missed opportunities and the

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