others joined and participated in the support of the vichy government. i was interested in the ones who really put their lives on the line. so i read a lot of memoirs, a lot of diaries, a lot of letters. i interviewed very few people, for my first book i interviewed a lot of people. it's very easy to go up and asked someone what was life like when you were a young person. but it's not easy to go up and ask, to find someone still alive in the resistant and then asked them to talk about it. i was fortunate to find a couple who really really were very helpful. sudden courage the title came from the idea that france had been defeated suddenly. six weeks most powerful army in europe, including german army and the british army was the french army in terms of our men come in terms of aircraft, in terms of men under arms. and hitler was expecting, he had made it them but he expecting more to last about a year. it lasted six weeks. within six weeks the french were pushed back all the way to dunkirk. you know that story. this stunned the french. at all levels. no

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you know the vichy and lie. and we're both artist and scientist it's ethical but it also follows ruth and because we've the rules and the hearts you create beautiful beautiful new beings. the painted the vinci has a large exhibition dedicated to hidden in the gardens of clooney seen you can also see a tapestry of to vinci's fresco the last supper on loan from the vatican. vinci's last large scale project in france with a shock to destroy people many of his early architectural designs from the land were incorporated into the construction of this palace we are not trying to mix different knowledge is and knowledge is coming from different places and you know there was a master and this and i think this is the biggest lesson we should take now just right now from the. even 5 years ago you are not i did think she was a modern european his drive to reinvent the world created some of the most impressive money meant that will amaze generations to come. so check out that price for our latest news draw and visit us on fa

are the force used by the vichy regime to counter the french resistance are complemented by a group of plainclothes and forcers called the brigade anti criminality the back who you see mingling with. the back and their conduct in appearance resemble nothing so much as the less conciliatory type of millwall supporter so a hooligan the economies of these countries like france united states and britain rely heavily on ransacking foreign areas foreign countries foreign territories through what you know the confessions of an economic hitman john perkins describes as ransacking of these countries and taking all their wealth and they ran out of wealth in these foreign countries other raiding their local pension accounts the french government is raiding the french people's pension account same thing in britain same thing in the u.s. and so this is devolving into guerrilla warfare effectively so all the rules of of conflict are out the window and it's everyone for everyone we always point out massless hierarchy of needs and this is something that the cia uses when they look at countries that th

that wasn't a friend she was this vichy regime. and that was not employed and so that kind of you know it pushes all to one side and she hike. despite the fact that he was in some ways a goalie starting we can we can debate his of the deaths of his go to some but- that he comes along in the nineteen nineties has no we- we call push this. to one side we have to accept. that it was the french state that was responsible for this and you know many historians who were already flanking the fact that the- the legislation the anti jewish legislationon te anti semitic legislation was put there. by a few she long before. before the third reich was demanding deportations that. that that role for all this was something that that ship hike. was was willing to face up. to and on it was an important moment. pulls with we could talk a lot more but sadly at times against us thank you as o of the- time. thank you for those of reflections on the life times and lexi of shake shack. who's been buried in paris today thank you very much indeed. i will ha

back the publication of his book was kind of a mess because he was running from the vichy police ande left them and escaped lying on on the best way they took everything else that left that at one stage. all that he was left with was dorothy hardy's ankle is asian of his work and what they found i think was the german original writing. it would be fascinating to see what changes there. >> i don't know if researchers are allowed to look at it yet but i know they are publishing in a dated edition which would be fascinating. the french edition of that look with sitesmack and its impact treated sold-out in every store around the block and it really challenged a lot of people into how they were thinking about the soviet union. all of that was based on this kind of british version that was written in these chaotic circumstances so it would be really interesting to see. thank you. >> i was thinking about this. there at least two major understandings of culture. one is culture as a producer of art and the other is a more scholarly culture is how many changes over time. i was wondering if you

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the french didn't do this it was the vichy government. >> book tb recently visited capitol hill and asked republican congressman tom cole of oklahoma emma what are you reading? >> i'm reading a book by a guy named tom what we ate was in english offer kind of new historian called appeasement chamberlain, hitler, churchill and the road to war and then just finished up rick atkinson's great book and opening book of projected trilogy on the american revolution called the british are coming. cover the first couple years of the revolutionary war. how do you select the books you read?>> it's a variety of things. i tend to read book reviews. obviously that matters in local newspapers. sometimes i will just hear about a book, a number of years ago, picking up the book devotion by adam nacos about two carrier pilots, one of them shut down and died in the korean war in 1950 and i heard him talking about the book on mpr. i said that sounds like a great read and it was. and listen to other people as well out there reading something interesting they will usually talk about it. no systematic way but i u