A Tenthal. A Tenthal. Yes, dear Lister, that can only mean one thing. You're listening

to We Have Ways and Making Talk. The linguistically talented amongst you will have recognised that

A Tenthal and Tenthal is, of course, Portuguese for actin, actin. Yes, it is. And we haven't

chosen to start with such a beautiful language just to be clever, have we? No, not on this

occasion. Our first topic today will be Brazilian themed, but more of that in a minute

first, or a reminder, the rules of this podcast, James and I will talk about anything to do

the Second World War, often digressing massively. We may at times talk about things that we

normally import. And we may also talk absolute trivia. Adolf Hitler's

bollock feature, we'll have it in the last week. It certainly did, it's weighing on my mind still.

No, the singular, but the right-hand bollock. But the key to the show is as much interaction with

you, our infantry division of listeners as possible. Indeed. So keep your questions coming in on Twitter

to use in the hashtag we have ways. Now one or two of our older listeners have suggested

that interacting on social media is not necessarily their preferred method of correspondence.

In which case, feel free to email us at wehavewayspodcastatgmail.com.

And if you want to know, well, you know, there is no turn if I'm small, but yeah, yeah, I mean,

sorry, you know, email really is for old people these days, and let's be honest now.

Before we go any further, let's start with this fabulous question from Matt

Isan Armored, that's his name. Hi, Alan James. I read a while ago, I think about Monte Cassino,

about Brazilian force fighting Italy for the Allies. It's the first I'd heard of it, which is

what I love about learning about World War II. Do you know any more about this? No, I didn't know

much about this until we said we were going to talk about this. That was a story.

Yes, amazing, isn't it? So the Brazilians are, well, it all goes back to kind of economics,

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