Book Talk Aboard Battleship Texas, Saturday, August 4

By Phil Padgett | August 3, 2018 |

Flying to Texas to give a book talk aboard the 104-year old battleship USS Texas on Saturday morning at 11:00 a.m. Central Time. Will talk about the Texas’ escort mission…

FDR Library Book Talk of June 16 Can Be Viewed in BookTV’s Archive

By Phil Padgett | July 12, 2018 |

The book talk that I gave at the FDR Library’s “Roosevelt Reading Festival” on June 16, 2018, now is available for viewing in the C-Span2 Book TV archive at: https://www.c-span.org/video/?446655-6/advocating overlord …

Book Talk To Be Broadcasted July 7 and July 8

By Phil Padgett | July 2, 2018 |

This Saturday, July 7 at 4:55 PM EDT C-SPAN2 Book TV will broadcast their video-recording of my talk during the June 16 “Roosevelt Reading Festival” at the FDR Library and…

Rosevelt Reading Festival

By Phil Padgett | June 18, 2018 |

Great fun at the “Roosevelt Reading Festival” at the FDR Library and Museum on June 16! I was one of 14 authors giving book talks.  In my talk on Advocating…

Interview available at Warscholar Blog

By Phil Padgett | June 7, 2018 |

An audio interview about Advocating Overlord and my experience in researching and writing the book is available now on the internet.  You can listen to our conversation by going to:http://www.warscholar.org …

Happy D-Day!

By Phil Padgett | June 5, 2018 |

Gentle People, On June 6, D-Day, 74 years ago, heavy fire poured down from the distant escarpment, where the American military cemetery one day would be established.  U.S. Coast Guard…

Rosemary on the Road with Advocating Overlord

By Phil Padgett | May 31, 2018 |

Something a writer learns early is that it takes a whole lot of hard working, indispensable people to make a book and then make it a success.  Rosemary Sekora is…

First Radio Interview

By Phil Padgett | April 27, 2018 |

On Thursday, I had the pleasure of being interviewed about Advocating Overlord by Pat Williams for his program, “The Pat Williams Show.”  We had a good time talking about the…

Advocating Overlord In Stores Now

By Phil Padgett | April 5, 2018 |

Gentle People, Copies of Advocating Overlord started appearing on bookstore shelves this week and an e-book is available at Amazon,  This is early, which is fine.  Signed a couple copies…

Book Progress

By Phil Padgett | April 3, 2018 |

At last, the smell of new books! Advocating Overlord has been printed and is in distribution for release in bookstores May 1st.