have george patton, we have we have bernard le gomery, we have winston churchill, we have martha gellhorn, the third wife of ernest hemingway, who a phenomenal journalist, her own right. and she was crazy brave. i mean, she literally stowed away on a hospital ship so she could cover the d-day landings and literally ashore, even though she wasn't supposed to be there. i mean, just this phenomenal journalist and also general james gavin, who of two star journalists, age of 37, one of the first paratroopers in american history, later had a very torrid mid midwife with martha gellhorn and, you know, not often you get to write a war book and also you have this romance in the middle of it, which was kind of cool. so let me let me backtrack a little but for those of you who don't meet naomi and maybe for some of the students who have wondered, you know what, how do you become a writer, what that life is like? i always wanted to be a writer. i mean, ever since was a little kid. but i remember literally years old telling my mom, mom, i grow up, i want to be a writer and. the first thing she said w

you want to know more about gellhorn. you want to know more about hemingway or the solution of their marriage in new year's day. you want to know about churchill and how he oversaw the demise of the british empire in the waning days of world war ii and was so saddened by all these rallies , gives this great speech in missouri where he predicts everything that has happened. he protects the iron curtain . he predicts there will be a war between the east andwest for control of europe . all that stuff is just amazing. it's fascinating so you should read the book. you take this away and you don't just say as you read it you don't go i have to read this history book, i want you to say this reads like a piece of fiction, like something that what makes me want to read more and read deep into the night. so let's take some questions, anybody. and remember we'venegot to do the microphone guy . >> when you were doing your research, was there and you traveled around to europe and germany, was there anything particularly impactful stan