after this the success that unhcr hillam the british said a few on bass and we will give you boston. they go to candidate to regroup in washington says i know exactly when they're coming back so they come back to new york city and he knows he can't face them. he knows he can't beat them head-to-head so he's got to use espionage. his gutsy is guerrilla warfare. he's got to be able to anticipate them so it's only logical well, he needs a spy. he needs his own cia and then you find out he has this huge espionage background. he is a noted guy from the french indian war. he went out of his way to brush up on those skills so he tells talmage and others in general scott hey regular general scott this is what we are going to need to do. we have to find these people to help me out. a >> now our booktv from the 13th annual national book festival on the national mall in washington d.c. pulitzer prize-winning historian rick atkinson presents his book "the guns at last light" the war in western europe 1944-45. >> and now to our author and our speaker, rick atkinson. rick served as a reporter fore