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Kensington, Maryland’s Day of the Book takes over the heart of our town on Sunday, April 28, from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Rain or shine, there’s always a great…

Feb. 18, 2019, Presidents’ Day, Miami, FL:  I asked the Gold Coast Railroad Museum for a little podium for the book talk.  Response? “Well, talk from up there.”  So, I…

The 75th anniversary of the 1944 Normandy Invasion, D-Day, will be commemorated in 2019. Few people know that, ten months earlier on a remote siding in Canada,  aboard his private…

A very insightful review of Advocating Overlord appears in the December 2018 issue of the U.S. Naval Institute’s Proceedings.  The book is reviewed by Lt. Col. Bradley Fultz, USMC, the…

Advocating Overlord will be among the works of 70-plus authors available for purchase and signing at the University Club of Washington’s 29th Annual Meet the Author Night & Book Fair,…

Saturday and Sunday, October 27-28, I’ll be selling copies of Advocating Overlord at the Great Scale Model Train Show in “the Cow Palace” at the Maryland State Fairground in Timonium,…

Ten years ago, as she prepared to speak to the National Emergency Management Association, I approached Doris Kearns-Goodwin with my Post-it-bearded copy of her book, No Ordinary Time. earning an…

Deborah Kalb has posted a brief on-line interview about Advocating Overlord on her Book Q&A site. To read the interview, click on this link: https://deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com/2018/10/q-with-philip-padgett.html Phil PadgettPhilip Padgett examines history by…

“EAT Local READ Local,” a wonderful one-day book sale and festival! I’ll be there at the Cascades Library in Potomac Falls, VA, to sell and sign copies of Advocating Overlord…

A review of Advocating Overlord has been published by the on-line military affairs news site, Strategy Page.  In addition to current news, Strategy Page archives material going back to the…