War of Shadows | Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Gershom Gorenberg | Culturally Determined

Support Bloggingheads on Patreon:   / nonzerofoundation   0:00 Gershom's new book, War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East 5:39 How Gershom rediscovered forgotten heroes from Bletchley Park 14:53 Fascist mythology and Italian colonialism 22:18 The strategic importance of the North African front 32:59 Debunking the myth of Rommel as a military genius and "good German" 44:58 The strange story of the isolationist American military attaché in Egypt 53:38 The real exploits of the man who inspired The English Patient 57:06 The North African campaign as the prequel to the Arab/Israeli conflict Aryeh Cohen-Wade (Links I Like, @AryehCW) and Gershom Gorenberg (War of Shadows, South Jerusalem, The American Prospect). Recorded September 23, 2021. Comments on BhTV: https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/62742 Twitter:   / bloggingheads   Facebook:   / bloggingheads   Podcasts: https://bloggingheads.tv/subscribe