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Podcast: Read Beat (...and repeat)
Episode: "Skies of Thunder" by Caroline Alexander
Description: World War II may have ended nearly 80 years ago but it lives on as a subject endlessly reviewed with fresh insight and information supplied on an ongoing basis. Movies and books haven’t stopped rehashing the great war since its conclusion, witness last year’s Oppenheimer and, now playing in your local metroplex, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.Meanwhile, WWII offers an ongoing avalanche of literary material, exemplified by recent titles like Churchill’s Shadow Raiders: The Race to Develop Radar, WWII’s Invisible Secret Weapon, Madame Fourcade’s Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led Fra...