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Bruce Hillman talked about his book The Man Who Stalked Einstein: How Nazi Scientist Philipp Lenard Changed the Course of History, in which he recalls the tumultuous relationship between Nob…

Cheryl Jorgensen-Earp and Craig Shirley talked about little-known stories from World War II. Professor Jorgensen-Earp is the author of Discourse and Defiance Under Nazi Occupation. Craig Shi…

Authors talked about their books that focused on two different methods by which civil rights for African Americans were advanced. Stephanie Deutsch is the author of You Need a Schoolhouse: B…

Authors talked about two different men whose experiences in World War II were extraordinary, but not well-known. Robert Gillette talked about his book The Virginia Plan: William B. Thalhimer…

From the 2010 Virginia Festival of the Book in Charlottesville, Virginia, Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney discussed her book, Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers.

Daniel Mendelsohn talked about his book, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, published by HarperCollins, a book about six of his relatives killed in the Holocaust. He was interviewed …

Robert Satloff talked about his book Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust’s Long Reach into Arab Lands, published by PublicAffairs. Mr. Satloff wrote the book to relate the H…

Writers showcase the personal stories of the men and women who served in World War II. Patrick K. O’Donnell is the author of Into the Rising Sun: In Their Own Words, World War II’s Pacific V…

From the Virginia Festival of the Book, General J. Kemp McLaughlin is a retired US Air Force general who wrote The Mighty Eighth in World War II, published by University Press of Kentucky, b…