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Welcome to Dennis Prager’s Timeless Wisdom. Each Monday through Saturday, you’ll hear some of Dennis’s best lectures, talks, and series—with brief commercial breaks.
On Today’s Show: Dennis talks to historian, Harry Crocker III. His new book is The Yanks Are Coming!: A Military History of the United States in World War I.
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| 0:48.4 | So we have a, periodically, we have a history hour. |
| 0:57.0 | The book that I feature is always a recently published book on history. This one is titled, it's just published, The Yanks |
| 1:03.3 | are coming, a military history of the United States in World War I. I might just note for my author's sake, and I will introduce him, of course, momentarily. |
| 1:17.0 | I am somewhat obsessed with World War I because that is what ruined the world for the next hundred years. |
| 1:27.1 | If it weren't for World War I, there wouldn't have been a World War II, |
| 1:29.9 | there wouldn't have been Nazism, there wouldn't have been communism, |
| 1:32.1 | there wouldn't have been a Holocaust, there wouldn't have been the genocides that took place on the communist rule. |
| 1:39.8 | The world would have been completely different. |
| 1:42.1 | World War I was the catastrophe that set everything in |
| 1:45.0 | motion. So I am transfixed by it. Also, it's the most complex. It's very easy to understand |
| 1:53.0 | how World War II started. People are still not in full agreement with how World War I did. |
| 1:59.2 | So this is a very important and fascinating subject. |
| 2:04.2 | The author is H.W. Crocker, the third, and he is a best-selling author. |
| 2:09.5 | He's written quite a number of books, such as Robert E. Lee on Leadership. |
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