We’ll talk about how views have changed in the years since the U.S. decimated Hiroshima and Nagasaki with UMass Amherst history professor Christian Appy.
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Music And Liberation
Pianist Mona Golabek writes about how her mother narrowly escaped the Nazis of war-torn Vienna in ‘The Children of Willesden Lane: Beyond the Kindertransport: A Memoir of Music, Love, and Survival.’
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Running From The Nazis, Together
It took Anthony Doerr 10 years to write his novel about a blind French girl and a German boy in exile during the Nazi occupation in France. He won a Pulitzer for it.
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Spies Like Us
This hour, we’ll speak with spy novelist Alan Furst about his latest tale of WWII espionage, Midnight in Europe.
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How FDR Led the Nation into War
Hour 2: We’ll talk this hour with David Kaiser about how Roosevelt guided the country during the tumultuous years of World War II.
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