is my great pleasure and honor to have this conversation with nisid hajari, the 2016 winner of the norwich colby military history award. what we are going to do today is have a conversation. you have read his bio, i am sure. you should look at the pamphlet that was handed out. he is a very famous journalist, helped set up time magazine, lives now in singapore and works for bloomberg bloomberg. and he has written this book called "midnight's furies". what we wanted to do today is unpack this book. i have intentionally not read the entire bio because i think it would be of more interest to the audience for us to have a conversation and put the book in perspective so this book deals with eventss that happened in countries far away, over 70 some odd years ago but i would contend that nisid hajari's book is so timely and relevant to where we are today. it connects with headline issues that you see in the newspapers every day. the war in afghanistan. the war in iraq. america's engagement with the world. america's leadership in transforming or trying to transform countries, what the 21 student ce

thursday at norwich university northfield vermont for the kobe award presented annually to a first-time author or book a military history intelligence operations for international affairs. this year's lecture will be delivered by the 2016 recipient of author of midnights furies of the deadly legacy of india's partition and next saturday and sunday live in the 21st annual los angeles times festival of books the campus of the university of southern california all they coverage will include author panels in your calls. that is a look at some of the author programs book tv will be covering this week. many are open to the public. look for them to air in the near future. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> thank you for coming. my name is doug sands. --dash my great-grandmother. the historian i've known for almost 20 years. become a very good request. a professor at the university of richmond also a good friend and are going to talk tonight about his new book. without further ado welcome and thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> i want to thank doug and always wonderful pe

casey chadwick who, as has been mentioned many times this morning, lost our live almost a year ago in norwich, connecticut, to a brutal homicide which was a couple of weeks ago came to a legal conclusion with the conviction of guine jean jacques. all i would say is wendy hartling was leading a very private life, and begin with a strong family connections in the community, that changed radically. she has been thrust into the public eye as someone who is against people attended all the court proceedings and has spoken out about really what was i think i already does this law and blunder by the government in terms of really following through on as what was said earlier a totally unambiguous deportation case. just joined today by attorney chester who participate and the survivors of homicide group in the state of connecticut and krista, who was casey's best friend. i think all the members will be again deeply moved i went these tests were here today and get it's an honor to have opportunity to introduce her come and i yield back spent i thank the gentleman. again ms. wendy hartling is the month o

from busboys and poets in washington dc thursday will be at norwich university. author of midnight fury live from the 21st annual los angeles times festival of books. all they coverage including author panels. that is a look at some of the programs. many are open to the public. look for them to air in the near future. >> during their recent visit to long beach, california we spoke about his 40 years is a columnist. >> it used to be a lot bigger deal.

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huge win for norwich. castle now six points from safety. sunderland also in the bottom three. they're 0-0. astonville sliding towards relegation for the first time since 198. they fired their manager and the loss to chelsea led them 12 points from safety. >> i've only see a couple of victories. it's going to take time. >> defending formula one champion lewis hamilton has secured poll position. hamilton grabbing with the final qualifying lapse just edging out rosberg. and finishing half a second clear of their closest rivals. they'll start third ahead of his teammate. and hamilton's record for the bahrain circuit. >> i'm just really happy about that. throughout qualifying and practice you go around and do laps and it wasn't quite perfect. and so to actually put it all together is actually more of a pressure because the previous lap i went off, knowing that i've got to improve even more, so than i did on the lap before. yeah. >> england and the west indies have a chance to become the first ever world champions as they go into calcutta, india. the last major final was th the 2000

former professor of military history at the united states naval academy and currently teaches at norwich university. for his work, he received the heritage foundation's testing which award. he is a holder of a doctorate from the university in the united kingdom and today he will discuss and later answer your questions on his book, "47 days. ." douglas waller, "the new york author saidselling "he has become a preeminent world war i historian."

former professor of military history at the united states naval academy and currently teaches at norwich university. for his work, he received the heritage foundation's testing which award. he is a holder of a doctorate from the university in the united kingdom and today he will discuss and later answer your questions on his book, "47 days. ." douglas waller, "the new york author saidselling "he has become a preeminent world war i historian." he mentions that he has written a fast-paced story with gritty detail and brings to life that argonneloody meuse- offensive when americans finally broke the back of the german army. yockelson.ome mitch yockelson: good afternoon, everyone. it is great to see everyone and to come out here and to talk on the subject that doesn't get a lot of attention in the united states, and that is the united states's effort in the first world war. as he mentioned, we got into the 1917 as ail of partner to the allies and slowly build our forces until it turned into the climactic battle of rgonne, which is the subject of my book and the talk today. but the discussion

thursday at norwich university northfield vermont for the kobe award presented annually to a first-timeauthor or book a military history intelligence operations for international affairs. this year's lecture will be delivered by the 2016 recipient of author of midnights furies of the deadly legacy of india's partition and next saturday and sunday live in the 21st annual los angeles times festival of books the campus of the university of southern california all they coverage will include author panels in your calls. that is a look at some of the author programs book tv will be covering this week.

former professor of military history at the united states naval academy and currently teaches at norwich university. he has received they army historical foundations distinguished writing award. also one of america's foremost experts on the first world war and holds a doctorate from the royal military college of science. today he will discuss an later answer your questions about his new book, 47 days -- about his new book, "forty-seven days: how pershing's warriors came of age to defeat the german army in world war i." douglas waller, the new york times best-selling author, notes become ahell has preeminent world war i historian, commenting on the book, waller has written -- "40 seven days brings to life that bloody arc, when general pershing and more than one million americans and french soldiers broke the back of the mighty german army." please welcome mitchell yucca's and -- please welcome mitch yockelson. a pleasure to be here, and i'm excited to see a nice crowd. hear usa lot of -- to talk about a subject that doesn't get a lot of attention. ofgot into the war in april 1917. built o

former professor of military history at the united states naval academy, and currently teaches at norwich university. received the he is army historical foundations distinguish writing award. he is also one of america's foremost experts on the first world war and he holds a doctorate from the royal military college of science. discuss and later answer your questions about his new book, "47 days". ler notes that mitch has become a preeminent world war i historian. commenting on the book, waller has written with an absorbing narrative. 47 days brings to life that war is final and bloody offensive when general john blackjack pershing and more than one million americans and french soldiers broke the back of the mighty german army. son.se welcome mitch yockle good afternoon everybody. i'm excited to see a nice crowd come out and here a talk on a subject that doesn't get a lot of attention in the united states. that is the united states effort in the first world war. we got into the war in april of 1917 as a partner to the allies. and slowly build our forces until it turned into the ofmactic ba