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WWI history book – “The Polar Bear Expedition” (William Morrow, 2019) – James Carl Nelson interview

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James Carl Nelson is a writer who focuses on military history subjects. We spoke about his latest book on the participation of the U.S. in the WWI Allied invasion of Russia; the only time U.S. troops have fought Russian troops on Russian soil.

0:46 – James talks about how he got into studying and writing on WWI.

2:29 – James talk about the focus of the book.

3:13 – James talks about the Bolshevik revolution in Russia and how it affected WWI.

9:40 – James talks about the equipping and supplying of these troops.

15:17 – James talks about the type of warfare these troops used in northern Russia.

17:00 – James talk about the little bit of air warfare that was going on around these troops.

19:50 – James joked about how some of the U.S. troops were taking on Bolshevik tendencies.

20:19 – James talks about medical and supply support.

22:20 – James mentions the Polar Bear Memorial Association.

24:15 – James talks about how Russia still teaches this event to students.

25:10 – James talks about the resources he used for research.

28:22 – James talks about militaria collected about this event and a museum in Frankenmuth, Michigan with some more artifacts.

38:09 – James has a James Carl Nelson facebook page.

Links of Interest

https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062852779/the-polar-bear-expedition/

https://www.facebook.com/JamesCarlNelsonAuthor/

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Guests: James Carl Nelson

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: military, history, military history, conflict, war, interview, non-fiction book, bolshevik, russia, britain, france, US, Slovak, WWI, world war one, petersburg, moscow, woodrow wilson, western front, eastern front, 85th division, murmansk, detroit, spanish flu, mutiny, polar bear association, arkangel, frankenmuth, vickers machine gun

NASA history book – “The Space-Age Presidency of John F. Kennedy” (University of New Mexico Press, 2019) – John Bisney interview

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John Bisney has worked as a reporter, on news radio, in public relations and is a NASA enthusiast. We talked about the latest book he has co-authored “The Space Age presidency of John F. Kennedy” which is a photographic history of NASA’s work during JFK’s presidency.

1:03 – John talks about how he got into studying and writing on this subject.

7:35 – John talks briefly about NASA illustration art.

7808 – John talks about how they lay out the book.

11:23 – John talks about doing research at the Kennedy library.

13:34 – John talks about his favorite photos in the collection. He touches on Alan Shepherd in the White House Rose Garden.

15:24 – John talks about how he chose the pictures they used.

18:03 – John talks about the companies that worked on the space program.

22:21 – John talks about other important people found in the photos.

23:43 – John talks about interesting people who also show up in the pictures.

36:54 – John talks about video of JFK’s travels.

43:35 – The other co-author of the book has a website Retrospaceimages.com

Links of interest

https://unmpress.com/books/space-age-presidency-john-f-kennedy/9780826358097

https://retrospaceimages.com/

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Guests: John Bisney

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: science, NASA, gemini, apollo, cape canaveral, jfk, space program, LBJ, congress, john glenn, white house, air force

Air Force and NASA history book – “Come Fly With Us” (University of Nebraska Press, 2019) – Mel Croft and John Youskauskas interview

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Mel Croft and John Youskauskas are both space program enthusiasts who have previously written a book on the NASA space program. They recetly wrote another book on space shuttle payload specialists and we discussed this new book.

1:414 – They talk about how they got into writing on this subject.

2:27 – They talk about how they organized the book.

3:18 – They explain what the pauload specialist program is.

6:51 – They discuss some of the interesting aspects of the program.

9:58 – They talk about writing on STS-51L.

12:26 – They talk about the reactions people had to being chose as payload specialists.

29:47 – They talk about what they might do with all the information they obtained that didn’t end up in the book.

35:44 – They talk about what the specialists thought when they saw they Earth from orbit.

45:28 – They talk about how the DoD affected the shuttle design and missions.

48:38 -They talk about how payload specialists handle being called astronauts.

54:06 – They talk about the X-37B.

57:33 – They’re both on collectspace.com. They’re also on cmflywithusbook.com.

 

Links of interest

https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/university-of-nebraska-press/9780803278929/

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Guests: Mel Croft and John Youskauskas

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: NASA, space program, shuttle, STS, challenger, accident, payload specialist, hunstville, space center, astronaut, X-37B, air force