but he did have the good on douglas macarthur. he was a remarkable scholar and most generous professor. brian: how does someone born in the new york city area find their way to indiana university? james: you may not know, brian, i am a french horn player or was. i was very serious about it. i joined the navy when i was 17 and two days old. i joined the navy reserve. two years act of service. i chose to take those two years after one semester at college. during which i played french horn rather seriously. went to the navey. came back. i will pick up where i left off. i got admitted to this mecca of french horn playing music school in bloomington, indiana, indiana university, so i drove -- i am not sure how you got around after the navy, brian, but i bought a 1957 mercedes-benz 190-sl. can you imagine the prospect of a veteran, mind you, with that kind of automobile? well, i drove up to bloomington, indiana, and dropped in the music department. i announced to my professor, i have been accepted as a french horn player. oh, really? i'

news breaking.re interviewed if you him before or after his monograph on douglas macarthur. but he ran a proof that douglas macarthur was kind of a fake with regard to a medal of honor citation from the first world war. de was a remarkable scholar an a generous professor. brian: how does some but he born in new york city find their way to indiana's university? james: you may not know that i was a french horn player. i joined the navy reserve which ofmitted me twoo two years active service and i chose to take those two years after one semester of college. i got back and said i will pick up where i left off. i was admitted to this mecca of french foreign school in indiana. i'm not sure how you got around after the navy, but i saved my money. i bought a 1957 percent is ben's mercedes-benz sl. can you imagine the prospect of a 22-year-old veteran with that car? said, i have been accepted as a french horn layer at th -- player at the university of indiana. he said, oh really? i've never been. many years in the navy? quoted as have been saying that you had five years. brian: [inau

president he said he could not could you know not at all not at all you know you may go back to douglas macarthur and harry truman for open fights between not that you are all of that but open faced with tuner president and a general but not in modern times and you know you add to that. what former general four star general stanley mcchrystal said about president trump just last sunday on a.b.c. where he said the man is immoral and does not tell the truth and there's no way he would go to work for him i mean we saw larry remember in the beginning. trump surrounded himself with general service general mcmaster and general kelly it's you know general mattis all the generals are gone i think the only thing left is general chaos in the white house but those people that we thought were going to be . if you will the adults in the room bringing some control to donald trump they're gone but the way i was late teenager when truman fired what cloth don't say i wasn't going to run for. it stay right then i would take a quick break and come right back with more politics. there of russia and why it's. in a wo

position because of some bad intelligence coming from their superiors in tokyo come a specifically douglas macarthur, who is the antihero of the book, i'm afraid. he did not want to believe the chinese would intervene in the war and they did in huge numbers. they completely surrounded the first marine division in an army unit that was also there and nearly annihilated or would have annihilated them and they not come up with a brilliant plan to bash their way out of this trap on the shores of this lake. that's what the book is about the marines hate to use the word retreat but this is a story of a noble retreat or a fighting withdrawal as they make their way to the seat, 70 miles away down at the coast. that is basically in a nutshell with the book is about. >> the first book that i read was ghost soldiers which came out almost 20 years ago. >> eighteen, yet. >> what is it about war that fascinates you? >> most of my books are not necessarily about war but these two are. i think there's something about military stories that in the extreme situations these folks find themselves that strip things down

douglas macarthur is advancing with his belgrade for the german , last german line i mentioned that sam is also attacking and to attacks to guide these men are stopped. the corps commander comes down and says macarthur give me that key train, that big hill or a list of 5000 casualties" are in his typical bravado replies my name will be at the head of the list of 5000. general macarthur summoned a meeting with leaders, we are going to take the hill this time in one of the officer said how are we going to do it. a young captain, captain robbie nora said i have been on that hill for two days aren't you going to ask me my opinion. he's awesome because at that moment he described that i thought at that time i would be fired or court-martialed for speaking out of turn and macarthur said you have a better idea. you have to credit macarthur and his boss. the captain said i will lead a hundred men around the flank. you do the frontal attack because the germans are expecting that-- you draw them off we will break through the german line and sure enough it worked to imagine how the street could ha