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  • No Average Day Part 2 with Rona Simmons

    No Average Day Part 2 with Rona Simmons
    2025/08/20
    We continue our discussion of the 24 deadliest hours for U.S. service members during World War II with Rona Simmons, author of No Average Day.
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    55 分
  • No Average Day Part 1 with Rona Simmons

    No Average Day Part 1 with Rona Simmons
    2025/08/06
    October 24, 1944, is not a day of national remembrance. Yet, more Americans serving in World War II perished on that day than on December 7, 1941, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, on June 6, 1944, when the Allies stormed the beaches of Normandy, or on any other single day of the war. In No Average Day, author Rona Simmons takes us hour by hour and incident by incident
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    53 分
  • Cassino '44 Part 2 with James Holland

    Cassino '44 Part 2 with James Holland
    2025/07/23
    "James Holland is now our foremost authority on the Italian campaign."

    Find out why our host, John C. McManus, says that as Holland returns to Someone Talked! with part 2 of our discussion of Cassino '44. Holland follows a rich cast of characters from both sides to create this compelling and often heart-breaking narrative, told in the moment, as the events played out, and from the perspective of those who lived, fought, and died there. t
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    38 分
  • Cassino '44 Part 1 with James Holland

    Cassino '44 Part 1 with James Holland
    2025/07/09
    There is no such thing as an easy victory in war but after triumph in Tunisia, the sweeping success of the Sicilian invasion, and with the Italian surrender, the Allies were confident that they would be in Rome before Christmas 1943. And yet it didn't happen. Hitler ordered his forces to dig in and fight for every yard, thus setting the stage for one of the grimmest and most attritional campaigns of the Second World War. James Holland tells the definitive account of this brutal battle in Cassino '44.
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    46 分
  • The Pope at War Part 2 with David Kertzer

    The Pope at War Part 2 with David Kertzer
    2025/06/25
    Hailed as the most important book ever written about the conduct of the Catholic Church in WWII, we have more of The Pope at War with author David Kertzer.
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    56 分
  • The Pope at War Part 1 with David Kertzer

    The Pope at War Part 1 with David Kertzer
    2025/06/04
    With Pius XII's archives finally opened, David Kertzer paints a new, dramatic portrait of what the pope did and did not do as war enveloped Europe from 1939 to 1945.
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    55 分
  • Remember Us Part 2 with Robert M. Edsel

    Remember Us Part 2 with Robert M. Edsel
    2025/05/21
    With his book tour underway for Remember Us, we continue our conversation with #1 New York Times bestselling author Robert M. Edsel.
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    58 分
  • Remember Us Part 1 with Robert M. Edsel

    Remember Us Part 1 with Robert M. Edsel
    2025/05/07
    This episode begins with a look back at The Monuments Men, Robert M. Edsel's bestseller—which served as the basis for Academy Award recipient George Clooney’s 2014 film. Then our hosts delve into Edsel's highly anticipated, newly released book, Remember Us: American Sacrifice, Dutch Freedom, and a Forever Promise Forged in World War II.
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    56 分