Guy Saville, blends fiction with the Nazi’s very real plans for world domination in this horrific, thrilling reimagining of Nazi-occupied Africa in Afrika Reich. Then, Rick Paskin with Funeralwise.com, hopes to stimulate discussion about how people deal with death in real life vs. how they view death as fictionalized in the media.

Simon Tolkien’s new book, Orders from Berlin, takes place in a London suffering from the Blitz, with Hitler’s forces massing on the French coast and preparations being made in London for what seems to be the inevitable German invasion.

Richard Lingeman examines a brief but momentous and crowded time, the years between VJ Day and the beginning of the Korean War, describing how we got from there to here in The Noir Forties.

Joe Nickell with the Center for Inquiry and Mack Maloney, author of UFO’s and Wartime differ on the existence of unidentified flying objects.

Fred A. Wilcox has spent most of his career investigating the effects of Agent Orange/dioxin on its victims, who continue to fight for official recognition of and compensation. Scorched Earth is the first chronicle of the effects of chemical warfare on the Vietnamese people and their environment and Waiting for An Army to Die tells the stories of hundreds who have been affected by the agent.

An era ended with the  repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and professor Aaron Belkin talks about what finally brought the policy down in How We Won. Then, was an innocent man executed last week in Georgia? Diann Rust-Tierney with the National Coalition Against the Death Penalty joins us.

Debunking 9/11 Myths expands on an article published in Popular Mechanics in March 2005, which deconstructs many of the myths surrounding the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Co-author,  David Dunbar responds to the conspiracy theories.

In Top Secret America, award-winning reporter Dana Priest shows that a secret government was created in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks which has become so enormous, so unwieldy, and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs or exactly how many agencies duplicate work being done elsewhere. Then, Nikki Stern whose husband died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. She is the author of Because I Say So.

Stephen Glain‘s State vs. Defense characterizes all the great figures who crafted American foreign policy, from George Marshall to Robert McNamara to Henry Kissinger to Don Rumsfeld with this underlying theme: America has become increasingly imperial and militaristic.

Martin Marty provides a compelling new perspective on religious and secular life in the postwar era with Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Letters and Papers From Prison. A Lutheran pastor and theologian, Bonhoeffer spent two years in Nazi prisons before being executed at age thirty-nine, just a month before the German surrender, for his role in the plot to kill Hitler.