Italian Wine Podcast

Welcome Book Club and Episode 2088 of the Italian Wine Podcast with Richard Hough. Today Richard is in conversation with Don and Petie Kladsturp, authors of, amongst other things, Wine & War: The French, the Nazis, and France’s Greatest Treasure. On the bookshelf: The books discussed in today’s show include: The Dead Lions series by Mick Herron The Shardlake series and Winter in Madrid by C.J. Sansom The Lady from the Black Lagoon by Mallory O’Meara The Billy Boyle series by James R. Benn Who Dares Wins by Dominic Sandbrook   More about today’s guests: Don and Petie Kladstrup are former journalists, longtime residents of France and authors of three books, all wine-related but based around three wars that shook the world. Their first, "Wine & War: the French, the Nazis and the Battle for France’s Greatest Treasure,"is an international best-seller and tells the story of how French wine producers in World War II struggled to survive under the Nazi occupation.  Their second book, "Champagne: How the World’s M