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Hello, this is Matt from the Explorers podcast. I want to invite you to join me on the

voyages and journeys of the most famous explorers in the history of the world. These are the

thrilling and captivating stories of Vigelin, Shackleton, Lewis, and Clark,

and so many other famous, and not so famous, adventures from throughout history.

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That's the Explorers Podcast. When we look back at the Second World War, we often break it up into kind of chunks,

sort of manageable pieces.

The early war years of German dominance, right up to the gates of Moscow,

the entry of the United States, the truly colossal years of 1943 and 1944 when everything

was decided, the grinding path to victory in 1945. And within those different areas of the war,

there are periods of time with their own narratives. For example, the previous

season of this podcast was focused on the growing conflict as the fighting expanded beyond

the borders of Poland in both Eastern Europe and Western Europe. The newest season of the podcast,

which I'm titling, if necessary alone, covers the period after the fall of France when the British Empire

was the sole major power at war with both Germany and Italy.

The British Empire spanned around the entire glow, and in the actions that followed between

the summer of 1940 and the summer of 1941, the British would call on that empire for support,

both in the home islands of Europe, the Middle

East, and Africa, as it tried to find a way to end the German and Italian advances in those

theaters.

However, even though I'm using the name, if necessary alone, a reference to one of Churchill's

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