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tweet us, twitter.com/booktv or a comment on our facebook page facebook.com/booktv. rory fanning a former army ranger who served with pat tillman in afghanistan and left the army as a conscientious objector a few days after tillman's death, sits down with anand gopal author of "no good men among the living" about the afghan war through the eyes of the afghan people. it's about an hour ten. >> okay everyone thanks for coming. my name is jason i work with haymarket books. i have the privilege of -- [inaudible] for these gentlemen -- [inaudible] like to take the opportunity to thank everybody for coming and introduce the event a little bit. we've had a number of events like this, and there'll a few more, and they've all been really exciting to be a part of and i just want to say a few things about why i think events like these are so important particularly today. you know, it strikes me just you know, walking through the world how lonely it can be and isolating it can be to be an anti-war activist. there's an anti-war movement out there, it's certainly receded away from

tweet us, twitter.com/booktv. t on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> saturday, january 24th is national read-a-thon day. a fundraiser for the national book foundation's educational programs, the organizationers have asked participants to pledge four hours to reading. throughout the past week booktv asked you on social media what you were planning to read, and here's what you said. on our facebook page, carol says that she just started a bio of james madison and is reading the book of the african short story. debbie posted that even though she has so many new books to read, that she's rereading a southern gothic she loves entitled "a hitting death in dix i have -- little death in dixie." and patty shares that she's reading the children act by ian mccue went. let us know what you're reading on facebook or twitter using the hashtag, time to read. and go to penguin/random house.com/read-a-thon for more information on how to participate. >> charles blow, richard blanco and roz chaste discuss their memoirs at th

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tweet us, twitter.com/booktv or a comment on our facebook page facebook.com/booktv. rory fanning a former army ranger who served with pat tillman in afghanistan and left the army as a conscientious objector a few days after tillman's death, sits down with anand gopal author of "no good men among the living" about the afghan war through the eyes of the afghan people. it's about an hour ten. >> okay everyone thanks for

you can also contact us electronically, send an e-mail to booktv@c-span.org or send a tweet to twitter.com/booktv. chris kyle in your book you write that you were not the best shot at all in your class before you went into the seals. >> guest: no. i never claimed to be the greatest sniper. i was through sniper school in the middle of the pack when i graduated, almost failed out of sniper school. everyone tends to think when you get these number of kills that all of a sudden you are this great sniper and that is not the measure of a sniper. the measure of the greatness of a sniper is to roll everything all in one. the observation, and everything, that is why in my mind, carlos bad cop, at 93 confirmed kills, i think he is the greatest sniper ever in history, not just america, all over the world. he would go in by himself, sneak in, take his shot with a lot less capable weapons in optics. we take that and sneak back out and detected. that is the true measure of a sniper, being able to identify your target, take the shot and get out. >> host: jim erickson sense in an e-mail, how many and conf

tweet us twitter.com/booktv or post a comment on our facebook page, this book.com/booktv. >> my father law, i inherited my resilience my passion and my audacity. looking back all those never explain to me in this way, he taught me the spirit the greek idea of honor and doing the right thing, even when one interest rate than one own life is in peril. growing up on there for anything but oesterle, they were two stories about the second world war increase that it always kept close to my heart. the first was in 1940 when mussolini, italy's prime minister asked the greek prime minister for free passage through greece. and on the spot at 3:00 in the morning without hesitation without confrontation, he said no. it was a spirited defiance come and quite incredible when considering just how vastly outnumbered the greeks were by the italians it prompted sir winston churchill the greatest figure of the 20th century in my mind to say it is not greeks that fight like a rose, but that heroes fight like greeks. and then again in 1943 on the island, the german military commander ordered the bishop to

tweet us twitter.com/booktv. or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> well, next on booktv we want to introduce you to sam kean whose most recent book is called "the tale of the dueling neurosurgeons." who are they? >> guest: so the dueling neurosurgeons are a.m. bros parre and andreas -- [inaudible] they were neurosurgeons in the 1500s in europe, and we usually don't think about neurosurgery going on that far back, but they were doing some very important work especially on a king of france who was kind of this big, macho king and ended up getting his face clobbered in a jousting accident one day. so they brought the best neurosurgeons in europe in to try the save him. and it was really a landmark case in the history of neuroscience where they learned a lot of different things about how the brain works. and that's kind of the premise of the book, is using these famous case studies, famous injuries especially to teach us about what every part of the brain does. >> host: well, what did we lear