{"id":10798,"date":"2017-12-07T14:34:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T22:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=10798"},"modified":"2017-12-07T14:39:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T22:39:42","slug":"q-a-hosted-by-jay-nordlinger-vdhs-wwii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/q-a-hosted-by-jay-nordlinger-vdhs-wwii\/","title":{"rendered":"Q &#038; A, Hosted by Jay Nordlinger: VDH\u2019s WWII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to Victor Davis Hanson chat about his new book with Jay Nordlinger on his podcast, <em>Q &amp; A<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson\u2019s new book is \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Second-World-Wars-Global-Conflict\/dp\/0465066984\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1512586306&amp;sr=1-1&amp;refinements=p_lbr_one_browse-bin%253AVictor+Davis+Hanson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won<\/a>.\u201d Jay asks him a slew of questions, including: What caused the war? Was Hitler dumb to declare war on America? Was Japan dumb to attack America? How was FDR as wartime leader? And Truman? Were we right to drop the A-bomb(s)? Was Yalta a crime, committed by the West? Is the Holocaust separable from the war? Who are some unsung heroes of the conflict?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ricochet.com\/podcast\/q-and-a\/vdhs-wwii\/\">Listen to the episode on Ricochet here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/d11k1eidkpp6ab.cloudfront.net\/2017\/12\/Q-and-A-hosted-by-Jay-Nordlinger-146.mp3\">Listen to the episode on Podtrac here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to Victor Davis Hanson chat about his new book with Jay Nordlinger on his podcast, Q &amp; A. Victor Davis Hanson\u2019s new book is \u201cThe Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won.\u201d Jay asks him a slew of questions, including: What caused the war? Was Hitler dumb to declare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2Oa","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10758,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/uncommon-knowledge-part-i-the-second-world-wars-with-victor-davis-hanson\/","url_meta":{"origin":10798,"position":0},"title":"Uncommon Knowledge Part I: The Second World Wars with Victor Davis Hanson","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 28, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EUELed7UuDQ How were the Axis powers able to instigate the most lethal conflict in human history? 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