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Music Hello everyone and welcome to history of the Second World War, episode 46, the Spanish Civil War part 11, to the sea.

This week, a big thank you goes out to Dennis and Philip for their

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Before we get started today, a couple of administrative notes.

Now, you may have noticed that I took the last month off.

Me and my wife had our second child back in February, and I just felt like I wanted to take

some time off to spend time with the family.

So that's what I did.

I also played some video games and watched a lot of rugby at odd hours of the night,

while trying to get the baby to sleep.

But now I'm back into the swing of things.

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