And joining us now is James Bradley, who is the author of Flags of Our Fathers, a great book and a great film that was done by Clint Eastwood.

And he's now got another book. That was about Iwojima, of course, and World War II.

This one is a nonfiction book, and it is about Vietnam.

It's called Precious Freedom.

And some of the reviews that are here, one person, Norman Solomon, said, for more than 60 years,

Americans have looked at Vietnam through the wrong end of a telescope.

I think that's a great way of putting it. He said, precious freedom turns it around and brings

people into sharp focus from Vietnamese people who lived there and died to the Pentagon's gun

sites. And so I think it's a very important story.

And he's spent a lot of time working on this story.

And this is a story that for most of us, Vietnam is a very, very important milestone in our

life.

I think it shaped as me, it shaped my view of government and war in many different ways.

And I didn't even go. I mean, I can only imagine the people that were there. But I did know people that went that were slightly older than I was.

I had two older sisters and they knew a lot of people who had been involved in

and going to Vietnam and that experience that happened.

And so this is a story that is told with characters

from both sides, Americans as well as Vietnamese. Thank you for joining us, James. Good to be here.

Thank you. Now, you spent a decade in Vietnam researching this. Tell us a little bit about that

and what Vietnam is like and what that experience was like.

Well, I went, you know, I had written four books up to that point.

So I thought, you know, I wrote all about the Pacific War.

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