Hello there, Almari here. I'd just like to take a moment of your time to tell you all

about an incredible, exciting new book. The last hundred years give or take and all that.

By me, Almari, a journey, a misremembered journey through the 20th century. Now, I don't

know how many of you are familiar with Sellers and Yateman's epic classic comedy history book,

1066 and all that. Well, I certainly am. And when I was asked to write this book, I said,

yeah, sure, I'd love to. But what I've made sure I haven't done is tried to pastiche their style

or do a book their way. Because basically that would be impossible. And also, I'm slightly

big-headed enough to think, well, I'll put it through my own comedy grinder, my humorous outlook.

We've got a little extra for you, though, today. For a We Have Ways listers, the middle section of

the book, although it's got some gags in it, it may sound slightly familiar. Maybe some of the

things that James Holland and I have spoken about along the way. This book's out now. It's 1499,

although you know what it's like these days. That's what it says on the sleeve, but it's probably not

that much. It's published with Quercus. It's out now. It's in all good book shops and on Amazon,

it's incomplete. It's biased. And it's only really got the stuff in it I was particularly interested in.

I hope you enjoy. Here's a short extract about the Battle of Britain.

Most critical event of all number four. Britain holds on.

After eight months of twiddling thumbs on the Western front, a general sense of allied

torpor and a botched attempt to keep Norway out of German hands. It all kicked off properly

on the 10th of May 1940 when the Germans invaded France and the Lowlands.

Put simply, they organized most of their tanks into one single punch, which came through the

Ardenne Forest that the French had decided were impossible to tanks. Impossible, they said,

they're impossible! The Germans had chosen to try to invade France at Cédan, coming down from

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