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In this episode I'm joined by Mark Buehner. Mark and I got into a Twitter conversation

lamenting how history had seemed to overlook the British General Richard O'Connor.

In lieu of that fact, we struggled to find an authority on O'Connor. We have

taken it upon ourselves to try and

recount his exploits and hopefully peak your interest in one of the war's greatest and

yet overlooked commanders. O'Connor came very close to expelling the

Italians out of North Africa.

If things hadn't distracted the British drawing away his troops,

there very well could have been no Africa court or al-Alameen.

Romul and Monti would have had to make their names elsewhere.

He was born in 1889 in Shrinaga, India.

His father was a major in the Royal Irish Fusiliers, pensioned off due to an injury the family

had to return to Britain. Well to do, yet not

necessarily well off, though they did have enough money to send him to public school and

for our American friends that's actually private school, I know, it's confusing, before he entered the Royal Military

Academy at Sandhurst in 1908. He was commissioned into the second Scottish Rifles, the Cameroonians

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