Hello there, Almari here.

Now I'm not sure if I've mentioned it at all on my podcast,

we have ways of making you talk,

but I have a book out.

Command, how the Allies learned to win the Second World War,

published this autumn by headline.

You can buy it everywhere,

and there's an audiobook out too, unaudible,

if you aren't sick of the sound I'm voiced by now.

The book uses ten officers,

the different stages of the war,

to try to tell the story of how the British

and the Americans went from such a poor start

to sweeping all before them.

From Montgomery before he was Monty

during the Phoney War,

to Freiberg at Crete,

via Francis Tuca in the deserts of North Africa.

Command takes in the period

when the British and Imperial forces

just couldn't get it right,

with a detour through Burma

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