Bob Greene: I just read a fascinating book called D-Day Through German Eyes. He says it's first-person accounts of the landings on D-Day from the German side. The soldiers were surprised that the allies were angry at them and fought with such ferocity because they saw themselves have been propagant, he says. Greene: You can understand why survivors of concentration camps and Auschwitz don't want to talk about what they went through.
Journalist and author Sebastian Junger talks about his book Tribe with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Junger explores the human need to be needed and the challenges facing many individuals in modern society who struggle to connect with others. His studies of communal connection include soldiers in a small combat unit and American Indian society in the nineteenth century.