Taking Paris & Writing Bestsellers with Martin Dugard
The Preamble
Sharon McMahon
4.9 • 15.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Sharon is joined by Martin Dugard, a fellow history buff and the bestselling author of “Taking Paris” and “Killing Lincoln.” Martin and Sharon discuss why history is anything but boring and talk about Martin’s latest book “Taking Paris.” Martin shares mind-blowing facts and never-before-heard information about the 1940 Nazi invasion of Paris; you are sure to have some brain-tingling moments! As well, Sharon and Martin discuss their love of history and learning, and Martin explains how he ended up in a Zambian prison while conducting research for one of his books.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, so glad you could join me. I have a new friend to introduce you to. His name is Martin |
| 0:07.6 | Dugard and he has written approximately one billion books. Not quite, but he is very famous for his killing series. I am sure |
| 0:16.0 | you have seen them like killing Lincoln he co-writes them with Bill O'Reilly. |
| 0:20.0 | 18 million people have purchased his killing series, which is basically about the death or attempted |
| 0:26.4 | assassinations of various historic figures. |
| 0:29.9 | So he has a new book out that I wanted to talk to him about, called Taking Paris, which is about World War II. |
| 0:36.9 | I know you're interested in World War II |
| 0:39.0 | because it's fascinating. |
| 0:40.4 | So let's dive into this conversation about taking Paris with my new friend Martin |
| 0:46.3 | Tukard. I'm Sharon McMahon and welcome to the Sharon Says So podcast. |
| 0:55.0 | Martin, thank you so much for joining me. What a delight to speak with you today. |
| 0:58.0 | Well, thanks for having me on. |
| 0:59.0 | It's fantastic to be invited. |
| 1:01.0 | I was excited to read your new book taking Paris. First of all, |
| 1:06.4 | Americans are fascinated with World War II, right? I mean kind of obsessed with it. |
| 1:11.0 | It's a thing. There's no such thing as a foolproof subject for a book but |
| 1:14.8 | writing about World War II is a pretty good way to find an audience. What makes us so fascinated by it far more than other worse? |
| 1:22.8 | Well you know there's a theory that if a war can be good, that it was the last good war because, you know, it really was good versus |
| 1:30.0 | evil and evil had triumphed so incredibly well so early like the Germans that spread, you know, just all across Europe and just took the continent by storm and they seemed unstoppable and somebody had to step in and put a halt to it and that's when the good guys come in, you know, |
| 1:45.2 | Britain, England, America, at some point the French with the free French. |
| 1:49.6 | It was easy to distinguish. These are the forces of good. These are the bad guys. Whereas a lot of |
| 1:56.8 | other wars, a lot of other time periods, that concept is so much more nebulous. |
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