The On The Bookshelf Podcast

Book review--a new look at the Chinese Communist Party's use of espionage

A new history of the CCP and its espionage, based on new Chinese documents and releases.

Book review--Curtis LeMay and SAC

What was being done to keep America safe in the first decade of the Cold War?

Book review--Shaped by Suffering

Inspired the interview with Jenny Abel. Themes explored: the nature of suffering, the likelihood of suffering, the difference between inconvenience and suffering, how God does not waste our suffering but uses it for the Kingdom

Interview with Jenny Abel on her book "Shaped by Suffering"

We discuss how American Christians look at suffering, the likelihood of suffering for the Christians (it will happen), the way that God can use our suffering to benefit others, how one day Christ will return with justice, no suffering in Heaven

Interview with author Joseph Wheelan--Bloody Okinawa

It was the last great land battle of WWII, the only one to take place on Japanese soil, and the ferocity of the Japanese defenders showed the American military leaders that the invasion of Japan's home islands would be even bloodier. The carnage on Okinawa was appalling, with over 120,000 civilians killed (mostly but their own hand, as Japanese propaganda had warned their citizens not to surrender under any circumstances).