The Anxious Voyage with Mark O’Brien: The Traveling Historian

The Traveling Historian: Bill Whiteside

Forty-Ninth Episode: After selling software for 30 years, Bill abandoned that career to finish writing a book he started researching to keep his mind engaged during his time on the road. He was intrigued by an incident from early in Winston Churchill’s first term as Britain’s prime minister. As he dug into the story from multiple angles, his diversion evolved into an obsession. The more he learned, the more it became a book he had to write. That book is The Attack that Shocked the World: Winston Churchill and the Royal Navy’s Assault on the French Fleet, to be published by the U.S. Naval Institute Press in Annapolis, Maryland. In the meantime, given what he learned in researching and writing that, he wrote and published another one: Everybody Knows a Salesman Can’t Write a Book. Bill joins me to talk about history, writing, learning, and whatever else crosses our minds. Please join us.

 

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