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Jennet Conant talked about the life of children’s author Roald Dahl, who wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach. Mr. Dahl worked to end the neutrality of Ameri…

Mr. Rooney discussed his book My War, recently reissued by PublicAffairs with a new foreword by Tom Brokaw. The book is a memoir-style account of Mr. Rooney’s experiences during World War II…

Donald Miller completely rewrote and expanded Henry Steele Commager’s, The Story of World War II in a new expanded volume that includes documents and records now available. Commager was a pr…

Mr. Duffy talked about his book, The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Saved 1200 Jews, and Built a Village in the Forest, published by HarperCollins. Mr. D…

Ms. Gruber talked about her book Exodus 1947: The Ship That Launched a Nation, published by Hardcover. She focused on the experiences of Holocaust survivors who boarded the ship Exodus 1947 …

Mr. Fleming discussed his book The New Dealers' War: F.D.R. and the War Within World War II, published by Basic Books. The book is an attempt to raise questions about the president’s handlin…

Nancy Sorel talked about her book The Women Who Wrote the War published by Arcade Publishing. The book tells the story of women journalists in World War II, from their bravery covering bomb …

Mr. Masters talked about his book, Striking Back: A Jewish Commando’s War Against the Nazis. It chronicles his experiences as a Jewish emigre from Austria who enlisted in the British Army an…