The Weird History Podcast · Joe Streckert

237 A Danger Shared with Bill Lascher

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Bill Lascher discovered his grandmother's cousin was the war correspondent whose photos he spent years digitizing.
Host Joe Strecker interviews journalist Bill Lascher about his new book featuring previously unpublished photos by war correspondent Melville Jacoby, exploring WWII in Asia through personal stories and overlooked histories like French Indochina and Jewish refugees in Shanghai.

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A World War II conversation that widens the map and keeps one human story in focus.

Joe Strecker and Bill Lasher shape a World War II conversation that pulls the lens away from the familiar Pacific theater and toward the Asian continent, where colonial power, Japanese pressure, and wartime uncertainty all press against one another.

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Press play for Asia during WWII, told through a journalist's path.

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