War has played a key role in the history of the United States, from the nation's founding

right down to the present. War made the U.S. independent, kept it together, increased its

size, and established it as a global superpower. Understanding America's wars is essential for understanding American history.

Welcome to Key Battles of American History,

a podcast in which we discuss American history through the lens of the most important battles of America's wars.

Here is your host, James Early.

Thank you. your host, James Early. Hello and welcome to another episode of Key Battles of American History.

This is a special episode.

I'm very excited to welcome back to the podcast, an author and YouTuber that I really like, and he's a great guy, and we're going

to talk about one of his books. In fact, let me introduce him properly. Jared Frederick is joining

the podcast today. He's been on once before a year and a half, two years ago or so. Jared is the

author of numerous books, including Dispatches of D-Day and Hang Tough with Eric

Dorr. He has appeared on PBS, C-SPAN, and Turner Classic Movies. A former park ranger

at Gettysburg National Military Park, Frederick is the host of Real History on YouTube

and an instructor of history at Penn State Altoona. Jared, welcome to the program again.

Thank you for having me back.

Oh, my pleasure.

We are going to discuss one of the books that I mentioned in this episode.

I've been on kind of a band of brothers kick lately,

and so I thought it would be great to have Jared on here since he's written multiple books

on some of the characters in the real life people that are

represented in the series. And so in this episode, we're going to talk about Hang Tough, which is

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