margaret mcmillan considers how military conflict has affected our lives is on the wall street journal's list of 2020 notable books. thusly 43. james holland. examination of the invasion of italy during world war ii. and historian eric larson discovers his leadership during the blitz. in the mid- 1940. that's when the action starts. it was the day that churchill became prime minister. prime minister. the greatest day in his life. this is the thing he wanted most of all. and he became prime minister. going into the rebellion in the house of commons. it was that the prior prime minister was not up to the challenge of dealing with hitler in germany. but that same day. was the day that hitler went to the phony war. and became a hot shooting more. when hitler invaded the low countries. here is a situation. where it is the greatest day of his life. but also one of the darkest days in the history of the world. this is like added spice to the challenge. the idea being in charge. of this great empire at such a dire time. it really kind of thrilled him. most of these authors have appeared on book

book by the new york times for nonfiction and we're lucky enough to be joined by its author margaret mcmillan professor mcmillan is a professor of history at the university of toronto in americus professor of international history and a former warden of st anthony's college at the university of oxford in oxford is where she's joining us from today good day professor how are you very well thanks all right so let's start with a book even a lot of books about that the 20th century and then you wrote this one which is of course about the 20th century which is known for these great wars but it's actually a much more broad look at history on this one topic of war why did why did you write it i'm also curious are you surprised at all by the response to it. well the 2nd question is easy to answer yes i am it's something i've been thinking about for a long time but i thought it will come out it's a book that a few people might like be nice it got some nice reviews that i am i am surprised it's something i've been thinking about it for a long time if you do history war comes in and out of history a lot

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war, historian margaret mcmillan considers how military has affected our lives. also on the wall street journal's list of 2020 notable books is sicily 43, author james's examination of the allied invasion of italy during world war ii historian eric larson as prime minister winston churchill's leadership during the london blitz the splendid file. >> 1940 which is when actions happened in the book was the day churchill came prime minister. the greatest day in his life even he would agree. it's the thing you want most of all. he came prime minister owing to something of a rebellion in the house of commons where the consensus was that nettle channel and was prior prime minister was not up to the challenge of dealing with her and germany but that same day was the day that hitler his phony war cease to be a phony war when hitler invaded the low countries. so here's the situation where , this is the greatest day of his life and also one of the darkest days in the history of the war. this did not dawn churchill. churchill, this was like adding spice to the challenge. the

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in the book war historian margaret mcmillan considers how military conflict has affected our lives. also on "the wall street journal"'s list of 2020 notable books is sicily 43, author james holland examines the invasion of italy and world war ii. eric larson studies prime minister winston churchill's leadership during the london blitz in the splendid and the vile. >> in the midst of 1940 is when the action starts my book was a day churchill became a minister in the greatest day in his life and i think he would agree that this is the thing he would want most of all. it became prime minister owing to a rebellion and house of commons or the consensus was that neville chamberlain prior per mr. was not up to the challenge of dealing with hitler in germany but that same day in 1940 was a hitler entered the bony war and became a hot war when hitler invaded the low countries so we have this situation where churchill is the greatest day of his life but also one of the darkest days in history of the world. this did not daunt churchill. he was like this is added spice to the challenge. he was

passed away in 2015, and 2004 here's our list of guest, thomas fleming, victor david hanson, margaret mcmillan, neil ferguson, it simon winchester, then on september 5 we went to the strand bookstore under the profile the stand, angela davis was our guest, david hackett fisher november in the late tom wolf in december. about 30% of the authors that we showed you are still active and writing, mike texted, my favorite in-depth author, interview was david mccullough a former pittsburgh native and it was special to hear about his career and learn how he writes in a purchase is subject, best which wishes for another year in-depth, we appreciate that. in 2007 it was newt gingrich who was our author, he is a prolific author, he has written several books, this program, section that we will show you from 2007 is a little different and we will explain "after words". >> there is a continuum when you start with a soundbite and you build it up and then you end up with a book over the dvd and i make in the continuum we're in one of the fascinating careers of dramatic change where we could potentially have a