Podcast appearances and mentions of Lynne Olson

John's program today is a repeat of the first discussion he had with Lynne Olson, the prolific author of books on the run up to World War II. This show highlights the dangers inherent in the long struggle between Ukraine and Russia, beginning with the invasion of Crimea by Russia. Given the ongoing attempts to settle a peace after 3 years of brutal warfare, it is instructive to see a bit of the context which parallels the appeasement of Hitler by Britain and France in 1938.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts Molly Meyers-LaBadie, Hannah Simpson, and Kellen Freeman. This week we chat about the Maker Studio!  Recommendations include What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith and Empress of the Nile by Lynne Olson.  Read more about today's episode here. Listen live every Friday morning at 9 AM https://wdlrradio.com/program-schedule/off-the-shelf/ This episode originally aired on March 22, 2024,

Food expert Michael Harden gives a crash course in dinner party etiquette; Ifrin Fittock, CEO of SisterWorks, talks about the Spectuacular Cultural Festival; Nat has added to her lamp collection; Book lover Fi Wright reviews Lynne Olson's Empress of the Nile; the team discuss different interactions with celebrities in their dreams; Tech enthusiast Vanessa Toholka describes how Suzanne Vega influenced the MP3 file format; and author Chris Womersley chats about his new book Ordinary Gods and Monsters. With presenters Monique Sebire, Daniel Burt & Nat Harris. Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/breakfasters/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Breakfasters3RRRFM/Twitter: https://twitter.com/breakfasters

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In the 1960s, the world's attention was focused on a nail-biting race against time: Fifty countries contributed nearly a billion dollars to save a dozen ancient Egyptian temples, built during the height of the pharaohs' rule, from drowning in the floodwaters of the gigantic new Aswan High Dam. But the massive press coverage of this unprecedented rescue effort completely overlooked the gutsy French archaeologist who made it all happen. Without the intervention of Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt, the temples—including the Metropolitan Museum's Temple of Dendur—would be at the bottom of a huge reservoir. It was a project of unimaginable size and complexity that required the fragile sandstone temples to be dismantled, stone by stone, and rebuilt on higher ground. A willful, real-life version of Indiana Jones, Desroches-Noblecourt refused to be cowed by anyone or anything. As a member of the French Resistance in World War II she had survived imprisonment by the Nazis; in her fight to save the temples, she defied two of the most daunting leaders of the postwar world, Egyptian President Abdel Nasser and French President Charles de Gaulle. As she told one reporter, “You don't get anywhere without a fight, you know.” Yet Desroches-Noblecourt was not the only woman who played a crucial role in the endeavor. The other was Jacqueline Kennedy, America's new First Lady, who persuaded her husband to call on Congress to help fund the rescue effort. After a century and a half of Western plunder of Egypt's ancient monuments, Desroches-Noblecourt had done the opposite. She had helped preserve a crucial part of its cultural heritage and, just as important, made sure it remained in its homeland.Today's guest is Lynne Olson, author of “Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples.” We discuss why Christiane Desroches is something of a real-life female Indiana Jones, what tactics Desroches used to save Egyptian antiquities from flooding in the Nile basin, and how important her intervention was to the effort.

This week, Alyson chats with bestselling author, Lynne Olson, about her newest book, “Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction”. There's a Jackie Kennedy crossover you don't want to miss!  Buy the book: https://amzn.to/43v9Qip Newsletter: www.kennedydynasty.com/newsletter Shop New Merch: www.kennedydynasty.com/shop Recommendations: www.kennedydynasty.com/recommendations Instagram: www.instagram.com/kennedydynasty Facebook: www.facebook.com/kennedydynastypodcast Patreon: www.patreon.com/kennedydynasty Website: www.kennedydynasty.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Let's save some temples! The Queen of World War II literature, Lynne Olson, joins the podcast to talk about her new book, Empress of the Nile. We talk about branching out from World War II writing and what's it like being complimented by government officials. Come listen!Buy Empress of the NileCheck out Lynne's website

PLEASE NOTE: Our Winter Term Registration is now OPEN! Four courses will be IN-PERSON at Noble Horizons; Only two courses will be on ZOOM. When you want to enter a TLC Zoom class, click here TLC is a non-profit membership organization providing the opportunity for lifelong learning to residents of the Northwest Corner of Connecticut and adjacent communities in New York and Massachusetts. TLC's courses cover a wide variety of academic subjects taught by volunteers, all experts in their fields. Click on Course Listings on the left to see what courses we offer. Annual membership dues of $60 per person are fully tax-deductible. There are no other set fees. Individuals may sign up for any number of courses. Classes lasting two hours are held once a week at one of our three conveniently located venues. Attendees are free to come and go as they like; there are no exams. Those taking advantage of TLC's program will rekindle the excitement of learning, expand their horizons, be able to share their knowledge, have fun and make new friends. TLC is a wonderful way to stay involved and well informed. Join today! For more information, click on an item on the left, or contact us by mail or by phone. Taconic Learning Center, Inc. PO BOX 1752, Lakeville, CT 06039 Tel. 860-364-9363 Courses for Winter 2023 Please select "Registration" on the left to register. Click here to enter Zoom meeting for any of the Zoom-based TLC Courses For your Information: Meeting ID: 893 2055 3978. Passcode: 128295 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89320553978?pwd=Y3lSYk5jUHN5ZFhvOWp6azBOWHMwdz09 Location: Noble Horizons Times: Monday, 10am-Noon Dates: Jan 16 - Feb 20 Sessions: 6 decorative leaf MEN PLAN, THE GODS LAUGH, PART II Sessions One and Two: Gen. Burgoyne's campaign to take Albany, NY (ended at Saratoga) and Gen. Clinton's campaign to take Philadelphia, in the American Revolution. No cooperation! Sessions three and four: General Lee's two invasions of the North ending in the battle of Gettysburg. Bloody! Session five: Admiral Yamamoto's campaign to take Wake Island in WW II. A disaster! Session six: Examples of three important elements in waging war: -Tactics: Hannibal and the Battle of Cannae, 262 BC. -Weapons: Henry V and the Battle of Agincourt, 1415 AD -Misdirection: Invasion of Sicily, WW II, and "The Man Who Never Was" Instructor: Thomas Key See this instructor's bio Get Class List Location: Noble Horizons Times: Monday, 1-3pm Dates: Jan 16 - Feb 20 Sessions: 6 decorative leaf The Perennial Questions Why are we here? Who am I? What is true? Human beings have posed these questions as long as they have been able to think. In this six-week class we will take a look at a few of the most enduring approaches to these questions. We will consider ideas about the purpose of human life, the means and ends of self-knowledge, and the challenge of discerning what is really true. Instructor: Lyn Mattoon See this instructor's bio Get Class List Location: ZOOM Times: Tuesday, 1-3pm Dates: Jan 17 - March 7 Sessions: 8 decorative leaf Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat, traveled to America and found the future. The nations of the earth, he concluded, or at least the enlightened part of them, were moving inevitably toward a condition of social equality that in the world of politics was taking the form of democracy. This new kind of polity was rising on the ruins of the old, hierarchical societies, and the young republic was the clearest example of it. Previous visitors from overseas had concentrated on the minutiae of daily American life, but Tocqueville was after bigger game. He wanted to tease out the broad implications of increasing social equality and democracy rather than focus on the details that were bound to differ from one nation to another. These implications then would have the widest possible relevance to the various societies of the emerging modern world. This new dispensation, Tocqueville realized, was full of both promise and peril, and he devoted himself to transmitting this balanced assessment to his European contemporaries. The book that resulted, Democracy in America, has been called the "greatest work ever written about one country by a citizen of another." Because his conclusions were so general and of such wide application his book appropriately addressed the Americans of his own time, his fellow citizens in France still trying to come to terms with the modern world, and, not least, speaks to our own distracted society today, the uneasy inheritor of the raw republic in whose image he saw the future. I'll include a PowerPoint presentation to illustrate my talks. Instructor: Robert Rumsey See this instructor's bio Get Class List Location: Noble Horizons Times: Wednesday, 1-3pm Dates: Jan 18 - Feb 22 Sessions: 6 decorative leaf Experimental Cinema: A six-session session course on the history and the development of Experimental Cinema This course attempts to present the participants a historical view of the genre, styles and the role of the filmmakers who developed and perfected the concept and the vision of Experimental Cinema. Invention of the movie camera offered a broad and diverse tool for artists to express their own interpretation of nature and life around them. Camera became another tool, a "brush" for artists to create moving images which projected their own aesthetic principles and perceptions. There will be a presentation of early cinema from France, Soviet Union, England and the United States. Early films by the Lumiere Brothers to Andy Warhol and how through ages, cinema has evolved from a vehicle to tell a story or document everyday life, to a tool expressing an individual artist's personal vision. Through the sessions of the lectures there will be an ongoing discussion about the goal for Experimental Films, which is to place the viewer in a more active and more thoughtful relationship to the film, which will be discussed. The 6 sessions will be an opportunity for the participants to understand this particular form of cinema and the various expressions and theorizations from various artists. The sessions will be coordinated with projections of stills from movies and at the end of each session there will be screening of a film, and an open discussion by the participants. During the entire sessions of the courses, informal and open-minded discussions of opinions will be encouraged. SPECIAL NOTE: Donald Sosin who is a well regarded musician and has composed musical scores for may experimental films will be appearing at the Wednesday, January 18th session for the Experimental Cinema. please see details below. Donald Sosin is one of the world's foremost silent film composers, performing his keyboard and instrumental scores all over the world. From 1971 to the present he has performed at many of the world's leading venues for silent film, including Lincoln Center, MoMA, BAM, the TriBeCa Film Festival, and many festivals including Telluride, Denver, San Francisco and Seattle, as well as AFI Silver, the Yorkshire Silent Film Festival, the Thailand Silent FIlm Festival, Italy's two major festivals in Bologna and Pordenone, and the Jecheon International Music and Film Festival in South Korea. Donald and his wife Joanna Seaton are the only people in the world who have created a repertoire of new songs for silent films, and have performed at many of the above venues, as well as at many colleges (Yale, Emory, Brown,etc.) They teach workshops in silent film music, and created scores for over 60 DVD/Blu-Ray releases on the Criterion, Kino, Milestone, Flicker Alley and other labels. With klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals, Donald has written and recorded three scores for Jewish-themed silents which they perform live all over the US and Europe under the auspices of the Sunrise Foundation for Education and the Arts. Donald grew up in Rye NY and Munich and played on Broadway for many years, after composition studies at Michigan and Columbia. His music has been heard on PBS, TCM, online, and in the concert hall. Donald and Joanna have two musical children and live in Lakeville CT. Website: oldmoviemusic.com Avant-garde filmography: Donald was commissioned to score the following films for two major collections of avant-garde films, Bruce Posner's Unseen Cinema collection, and Kino's Avant-garde DVD set. Piano except as indicated Anémic Cinéma (1924-26) Rrose Sélavy aka Marcel Duchamp Beggar on Horseback (fragment, 1925) James Cruze Bronx Morning, A (1931) Jay Leyda (chamber ensemble) Coney Island at Night (1905) Edwin S. Porter Enchanted City, The (1922) Warren Newcombe Ghost Train, The (1903) unknown Ghosts Before Breakfast (1928) Hans Richter H20 (1929) Ralph Steiner Hearts of Age, The (1934) William Vance & Orson Welles Jack and the Beanstalk (1902) Edwin S. Porter Life and Death of 9413: A Hollywood Extra, The (1927) Robert Flaherty & Slavko Vorkapich Looney Lens: Pas de Deux (1924) Al Brick Love of Zero, The (1928) Robert Florey & William Cameron Menzies Manhatta (1921) Charles Sheeler & Paul Strand (orchestra) Pie in the Sky (1934-35) Elia Kazan, Ralph Steiner & Irving Lerner Retour à la Raison, Le (1923) Man Ray Skyscraper Symphony (1929) Robert Flaherty Telltale Heart, The (1928) Charles Klein Twenty-Four Dollar Island (c. 1926) Robert Flaherty (voice and synthesized orchestra, percussion) Überfall (1928) Instructor: Varoujan Froundjian Get Class List Location: Noble Horizons Times: Thursday, 10am-Noon Dates: Jan 19 - March 9 Sessions: 8 decorative leaf Unsung Heroes of WWII We all know of Winston Churchill, FDR, Dwight Eisenhower; the Battle of Britain, the Battle of the Bulge, and more. What most of us do not know of are the unsung heroes of World War II, those who contributed significantly to the Allies' victory: men and women who were critical to the war effort but engaged in clandestine operations; men and women who provided essential services to the Allied effort. This course is both a lecture by Lynne Olson (author of Citizens of London and other exceptional books) together with classes led by Larry and Carol Rand. Instructor: Larry&Carol Rand Get Class List Location: Zoom Times: Friday, 1-3pm Dates: Jan 20 - March 10 Sessions: 8 decorative leaf Shakespeare Playreading We'll read aloud and discuss Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night's Dream . The two plays are often called "festive" comedies because each commemorates a significant day marked by popular license in the Elizabethan calendar. Twelfth Night refers to the last night of the twelve days of Christmas, and in spite of its religious origin it was a thoroughly secular celebration. A Midsummer Night's Dream takes its title from the evening before midsummer day, the summer solstice and the longest day of the year, when the prospect of warmth and lengthening days inspired much misbehavior. If time permits, we'll also read Troilus and Cressida, one of Shakespeare's so-called "problem plays," which contain both tragic and comic elements and thus resist easy placement in the canon. I'll scroll the texts of the plays on your screens. Instructor: Robert Rumsey See this instructor's bio Get Class List

John's show is repeat of one with Lynne Olson, the author of numerous books dealing with the period of time from the 1930s to the end of the Second World War. She writes and talks of that

Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe and the Brotherhood that Helped Turn the Tide of WarIn the early days of World War II, London became the base of operations for the exiled leaders of occupied Europe. In their struggles against the mightiest military force in history, Britain become known as “Last Hope Island'. Acclaimed historian Lynne Olson describes how the British and their European guests joined forces to restore order to a broken continent. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In honor of spooooky Halloween Andi and Lise talk about things that freak us out, including some urban legends, folklore, and other creepy things: mirrors and the Bloody Mary legend; La Llorona (the weeping woman); Delphine LaLaurie Mansion; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow/Headless Horseman; when something you think is normal isn’t; skinwalkers.  Shout-outs! Andi is seriously obsessed with “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving (find it at Project Gutenburg). And check out the 1998 movie Sleepy Hollow with Johnny Depp for an interesting forensic-ish take. And if you want, Andi’s take on Sleepy Hollow is The Secret of Sleepy Hollow, available at Ylva (and all the places!).  Lise is finishing up The Good Place on the teevee; fun, insightful, brilliant. And she’s coping with the cray by watching episodes of My Little Pony while Andi is finding inspiration from historical accounts of women who were leaders in the French Resistance during the WWII Nazi occupation.  Sonia Purnell’s 2019 release A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II is amazing. And check out Lynne Olson’s Madame Fourcade’s Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France’s Largest Spy Network Against Hitler (2019). 

Bestselling author Lynne Olson comes to our new Common Ground Podcast, Beyond Aporia, to speak about her books Last Hope Island and Those Angry Days.

Autorzy książki "Sprawa honoru" to małżeństwo. Lynne Olson to amerykańska autorka, historyk i dziennikarz, napisała 8 książek historycznych (między innymi: Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War (2017)). Stanley Cloud napisał z Lynne Olson dwie książki: The Murrow Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism (1996) oraz A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II (2003). Lynne i Stanley mieszkają w Waszyngtonie i mają czwórkę dzieci.We wstępie autorzy piszą, że planowali książkę przygodową, a skończyli na honorze i zdradzie. Książka składa się z dwóch części. Pierwsza część książki to biografia pięciu pilotów (Mirosława Ferića, Witolda Łokuciewskiego, Jana Zumbacha, Witolda Urbanowicza oraz Zdzisława Krasnodębskiego.Druga część książki to historia pozostawienia Polaków przez zachodnich aliantów.

What are China’s grand ambitions? Did the United States get China “wrong”? And what policies should the United States adopt against a newly assertive China? What Western strategists are on the Chinese Communist Party’s reading list? Professor Aaron Friedberg and Brad Carson discuss these issues and much more in the new episode of “Jaw-Jaw.” If you'd like to read a full transcript of the episode, click here.    Biographies Aaron L. Friedberg is professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1987, and co-director of the Woodrow Wilson School’s Center for International Security Studies. He is also a non-resident senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and a senior advisor to the National Bureau of Asian Research. Friedberg is the author of The Weary Titan: Britain and the Experience of Relative Decline, 1895-1905 and In the Shadow of the Garrison State: America's Anti-Statism and its Cold War Grand Strategy, both published by Princeton University Press, and co-editor (with Richard Ellings) of three volumes in the National Bureau of Asian Research's annual "Strategic Asia" series. His third book, A Contest for Supremacy: China, America and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia, was published in 2011 by W.W. Norton and has been translated into Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. His most recent monograph, Beyond Air-Sea Battle: The Debate Over U.S. Military Strategy in Asia was published in May 2014 as part of the International Institute for Strategic Studies’ Adelphi Paper series. Brad Carson is a professor at the University of Virginia, where he teaches in the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2001 to 2005 and was undersecretary of the Army and acting undersecretary of defense for personnel & readiness in the Obama administration. He welcomes comments at brad.carson@warontherocks.com.   Links James Mann, The China Fantasy: Why Capitalism Will Not Bring Democracy to China, (Penguin Book, 2008) Stewart Patterson, China, Trade and Power: Why the West's Economic Engagement Has Failed, (London Publishing Partnership, 2018) Lynne Olson, Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England, (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008)   Music and Production by Tre Hester

This podcast is brought to you by the letter V. This podcast is a story from the book Last Hope Island by Lynne Olson about the graffiti that helped ignite the European resistance movement against the Nazi War Machine in WWII. I know this this may be slightly over 3 minutes, but let’s be honest, most of them will be so ignore the false advertising and get ready for some knowledge bombs about to be dropped. Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood that Helped Turn the Tide of War by Lynne Olson Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

Przed nami kolejna rocznica wybuchu II Wojny Światowej a od 1 sierpnia wspominamy dramatyczne i wstrząsające wydarzenia związane z Powstaniem Warszawskim. Dlatego właśnie, w 15 odcinku podcastu READERS INITIATIVE, postanowiliśmy zarekomendować Wam i pokrótce omówić kilka interesujących publikacji, skupiających się na ważnych wątkach i znaczących postaciach z okresu II Wojny Światowej i okupacji niemieckiej. Na liście polecanych przez nas książek znalazły się tym razem głównie pozycje dotyczące historii i losów Polski a ponadto kilka lektur, które opisują nieco mniej znane fakty i wydarzenia z tego czasu. Mamy nadzieję, że zarówno każdy wielbiciel dobrej literatury historycznej, jak i osoba, która po prostu chciałaby dowiedzieć się więcej o wydarzeniach z omawianego okresu, znajdą tu coś dla siebie.  Tym razem do naszego zespołu zaprosiliśmy PIOTRA BOROWSKIEGO, twórcę podcastu HISTORIA POLSKI DLA DZIECI I WEDŁUG DZIECI, w którym przybliża on najważniejsze wydarzenia z dziejów naszego kraju w sposób przystępny i ciekawy dla najmłodszych słuchaczy (przy ich aktywnym udziale). Poza tym Piotr prowadzi bloga i i powiązany z nim podcast KSIĄŻKI.AUDIO, na łamach którego dzieli się recenzjami audiobooków, artykułami związanymi z tym sektorem czytelnictwa, oraz zaprasza interesujące osoby z branży - wydawców, twórców, oraz innych pasjonatów czytania i słuchania literatury.  Odcinek poprowadził RAFAŁ a zespół zasilił ponownie PIOTR, współtwórca serwisu o grach GRASTROSKOPIA.PL i współnagrywający podcast poświęcony elektronicznej rozrywce (i nie tylko) TOMOGRAF.  Zapraszamy do dzielenia się Waszymi ulubionymi i wartymi przeczytania książkami z omawianej tematyki - i nie tylko - oraz przekazywania nam wszelkich propozycji, uwag i komentarzy, jakie nasuną się Wam w trakcie słuchania niniejszego odcinka. Miłego słuchania! SPIS ZAWARTOŚCI: 00:08:07 - Alexandra Richie - "Warszawa 1944. Tragiczne powstanie", oraz Norman Davies - "Powstanie '44"00:31:23 - Swietłana Aleksijewicz - "Wojna nie ma w sobie nic z kobiety"00:37:29 - Lynne Olson, Stanley Cloud - "Sprawa honoru. Dywizjon 303 Kościuszkowski: zapomniani bohaterowie II wojny światowej"00:45:56 - Norman Davies - "Europa walczy 1939-1945. Nie takie proste zwycięstwo"00:49:48 - Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius - "A History of Eastern Europe" (dostępna tylko w jezyku angielskim)00:51:49 - Alex Kershaw - "Pluton. Bohaterowie w Ardenach" 00:54:08 - Terry Brighton - "Gry wojenne. Patton, Monty i Rommel"00:54:50 - Jochen Böhler - "Najazd 1939. Niemcy przeciw Polsce"00:59:11 - Kacper Śledziński - "Czarna kawaleria. Bojowy szlak pancernych Maczka" AKTUALNIE CZYTANE: 01:04:42 - Paweł Skibiński - "Polska 1918"01:05:07 - Giles Milton - "Ministerstwo niedżentelmeńskich działań wojennych"01:05:48 - Victor Davis Hanson - "The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won" (dostępna tylko w języku angielskim)01:07:08 - B.V. Larson - seria "Undying Mercenaries" (seria dostępna tylko w języku angielskim) HISTORIA POLSKI DLA DZIECI na platformie podcastowej Speaker: https://www.spreaker.com/show/historia-dla-dzieci Strona www podcastu HISTORIA POLSKI DLA DZIECI I WEDŁUG DZIECI:  http://historiawgdzieci.pl/ BLOG I PODCAST KSIĄŻKI.AUDIO:  http://ksiazki.audio/blog Link do odcinka w serwisie YouTube: https://youtu.be/QeRhT9Wuv2I Strona www: http://readersinitiative.podbean.com/#Strona www BookBusters.audio: https://bookbusters.audio/Fanpage: https://www.facebook.com/readers.initiative/Grupa na FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/392355947823710/Twitter: @rafal_readersEmail: readers.initiative@gmail.comiTunes: https://goo.gl/FuTynAYouTube: https://goo.gl/RbCWLQRSS: https://readersinitiative.podbean.com/feed/

Lynne Olson, author of the 2014 Lionel Gelber Prize shortlisted book “Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs.

In the early days of World War II, London became the base of operations for the exiled leaders of occupied Europe. In their struggles against the mightiest military force in history, Britain become known as 'Last Hope Island’. In this episode, acclaimed historian Lynne Olson discusses her book and describes how the British and their European guests joined forces to restore order to a broken continent.Recorded at Chalke Valley History Festival 2017.www.cvhf.org.uk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the early days of World War II, London became the base of operations for the exiled leaders of occupied Europe. In their struggles against the mightiest military force in history, Britain become known as 'Last Hope Island’. In this episode, acclaimed historian Lynne Olson discusses her book and describes how the British and their European guests joined forces to restore order to a broken continent.Recorded at Chalke Valley History Festival 2017.www.cvhf.org.uk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The business of leaking government secrets has a long, long history and the whole subject of leaking and leaks is complicated. Why do leaks happen? What motivates the leaker? Are leaks good or bad or sometimes vital? In this episode we consider two leaks from history – a pre-World War II leak of U.S. war planning and the celebrated leak of the Pentagon Papers in 1971. Marc Johnson interviews historian Lynne Olson, Daniel Ellsberg biographer Tom Wells, Fredrick Schwartz of the Brennan Center and the Columbia Journalism Review’s David Uberti. Oh, yes, we offer a little current perspective, too. Leaking…a short history.

Historian Lynne Olson, is the author of "Citizens of London" which is about Americans who lived in London during the second world war and who played a vital role in maintaining Anglo-American relations. Mentioned are Averell Harriman and Edward Murrow.

Historian Lynne Olson, is the author of "Citizens of London" which is about Americans who lived in London during the second world war and who played a vital role in maintaining Anglo-American relations. Mentioned are Averell Harriman and Edward Murrow.

Citizens of London is the behind-the-scenes story of how the United States forged its wartime alliance with Britain, told from the perspective of three key American players in London: Edward R. Murrow, Averell Harriman, and John Gilbert Winant. Drawing from a variety of primary sources, Lynne Olson skillfully depicts the dramatic personal journeys of these men who, determined to save Britain from Hitler, helped convince a cautious Franklin Roosevelt and a reluctant American public to support the British at a critical time. Murrow, Harriman, and Winant formed close ties with Winston Churchill and were drawn into Churchill's official and personal circles.Lynne Olson, a former Moscow correspondent for the Associated Press and White House correspondent for the Baltimore Sun, is the author of Troublesome Young Men and Freedom's Daughters. She co-authored, with her husband Stanley Cloud, A Question of Honor and The Murrow Boys.Recorded On: Tuesday, May 17, 2011