so from elizabeth norman's book to the research, michael norman is a veteran of the vietnam war, elizabeth norman is the daughter of two world war ii veterans say they are prepared to write this book. they will present the book in tandem up here by slides and we will live up for questions. we are filming this season. when a comes time for questions we ask that you get to our microphone in the middle aisle. thank you for being here again, and please help me welcome to politics and prose, elizabeth norman and michael norman. [applause] >> good evening. i would like to welcome the records club of washington. we are happy to see you. i would like to acknowledge the great help we got from jan herman, steve -- historian who is sitting here, and jerrod and kate michael who are in the back, cousins of ben steel. we will get started. >> thank you for coming to talk about years in the darkness but before we get to the details of the death march and amazing stories of the men from that era, let's talk about the first days of world war ii. 7:55 a.m. on december 7, 1941, japanese bombers and fighters a

. >> elizabeth and michael norman recount the conflict of the bataan peninsula in the philippines. america's first large-scale land battle of world war ii from january to april of 1942. 76,000 american and filipino soldiers and toward a 41 month imprisonment which included hard labor and torture, politics and prose bookstore in washington d.c. hosted the event. it is an hour. >> okay, good evening. we will get started. good evening and welcome to politics and prose bookstore. eyes schedular in-store events t-rec politics and prose, so for everyone here i wanted to say thank you for being here this evening, for supporting the bookstore, supporting our offence anton night supporting elizabeth and michael norman for their new book, tears and the darkness. we are very excited to have them here, to talk about this book, which really would be hard for me to contribute any higher praise than the book has, then the book has already received. it is something may be of a sleeper, which i know the author's probably would not want to label it as, but this book is really, the reviews it has rec

michael and elizabeth norman write a history of the world war ii death march called tears in the darkness. and the economic crisis in and then the roof caved in. .. >> to see more summer reading lists and other program information, visit our website at the tv.org. >> and now more of the tvs coverage from the 2009 chicago tribune printers row lit fest. the second event of the day features elliot gorn the author of "dillinger's wild ride," the year that made america's public enemy number one. and john hallwas, the author of "dime novel desperadoes," the notorious maxwell brothers. [applause] >> one of the reasons i love books is that i and inept with things like this. i don't even know how to turn off my phone. i've got it. i'm sure that will be great with books. this is an interesting one. the way many of these panels, together randomly likely throw a couple others name up and they fall down on the table and they say rick, go and interview these people. i don't think it was planned because what we are dealing with with these two fine books, "dillinger's wild ride" and "dime novel desperado