The On The Bookshelf Podcast

interview with Bill Heid of Heirloom Audio

From June 2017, Bill explains how he started Heirloom Audio, their mission, and their continuing series s "The Amazing Adventures of G.A. Henty".

interview--The Battle of Iwo Jima

An exhaustively-researched book looks at the incredible ferocity of   the Battle of Iwo Jima , and looks in-depth at a Medal of Honor winner and the opposing Japanese commander, who would have been tried as war criminal for the Rape of Honk Kong had he survived. A third of all the US Marines who died in the South Pacific Theater of WWII died on Iwo Jima.

interview--How oral hygiene is a critical health issue in USA

Mary Otto, from June 2017, talks "Teeth" and the struggle for oral hygiene in America. 

interview--How a pioneer criminal profiler saved New York

From June 2017, Michael Cannell brings his book "Incendiary", which tells of the Mad Bomber of New York City who declared a truce during WWII and didn't set off bombs again until it was over. And how one of the first criminal profilers correctly identified the man who turned out to be the Bomber.

interview--How the West created TR

From June 2017, when Theodore Roosevelt's wife died in childbirth on the same day as his beloved mother died, he left his infant daughter with family and headed to the Old West. His incredible adventures shaped him into the legend he became. William Hazelgrove explains.