The Welcome to Beirut 1983, a place of turmoil, a place of turmoil, a place of death, bombings, assassinations, and kidnappings were the order of the day,

but war in Lebanon was anything but cold. The Annie Jekison, thank you so much for doing this and congratulations on New York Times bestseller nuclear war.

It keeps coming back on.

It keeps jumping on, getting back on the list and every time you do a big interview, more people

find out about it so I want to encourage

everybody to go and read all your books but particularly this latest nuclear war.

Of course, James, thank you so much for this last two years partnership together working on this book right here targeted Beirut

first in a series of non-fiction books about terrorist events that really changed the course of history

and trying to capture those

lessons learned so future generations don't have to relearn those lessons in

blood and for people watching they can see James's books right here behind me

right there and then Annie's books right here behind me, right there, and then Annie's books right there, the collection right behind me there.

So thank you both so much for doing this. I sincerely appreciate it.

Thank you. Amazing, guys, it is so amazing to be here and I have to say, how dare you enter my wheelhouse of

non-fiction Jack and, you know, James. dare you powerful book and it's really, you know, it's a gripping read and I can't wait to get into it.

We're going to have to delicately balance spoiler alerts, right?

Because you know, don't want to give away too much to readers because the,

although you know what, I will say even knowing a lot about that history myself, I still found myself with some real jaw-dropping and real poignant tear-jirking moments.

So it's really remarkable when history does that to us.

And as you say, lessons learned. We don't have to hopefully

future generations don't have to relive them such as life. So I'm going to start with a little bit of

intros here so to start with James, James is a former Neiman fellow at Harvard, the

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