So I'm here with my good pal, Professor John Muttmanis, and John and I are over here in

Normandy, and we've just been in a cafe in Bayer, a backstreet of them, in the Rue Saisjon,

I should say. And I've just been to the tapestry for the first time ever, I'm a bit embarrassed

to say that I've never been there before. But boy, that's impressive, isn't it?

Absolutely. There are a number of times. I think the key to enjoying the tapestries if they're

not a big crowd. Yeah. It was a big crowd then. You can't see anything.

Did Lee Squad. Yeah. So we were in, I think we were first, you know, we were first draft

in this morning, so it was pretty clear. You got there in the right time. And had this

fantastic English commentator on my little handpiece that they give you, who was really

old-school thespian, which actually kind of added to it. And you had the little sort of, you know,

sort of loot some things in the background, which I kind of thought actually rather added to it.

But I was really, really impressed. And of course, you know, that's an invasion going the other

way around, going back across the channel. But our business this week is the invasion of the

Sixth of June, and you've just written about this on the dead and those about to die. The amazing

book about the big red one, the first type of tree division on Omaha Beach. So kind of what,

you know, what made you kind of go for that. I mean, it's such a such an iconic part of America's

history. It is, like, it's right up there with Gettysburg, Bunker Hill, Yorktown. I mean, you name it.

When Americans think of war, they often think of Omaha Beach. Of course. They think of Normandy

and they think Omaha Beach. But what occurred to me is that, you know, as iconic as the battle was,

most of the, the American fixation had been on the 29th division, the Rangers, especially,

after Private Ryan, because that's showing the, the, the kind of Western end of the beach,

whether it's, you know, Tom Hanks and K. Long Rangers, right? Yeah, exactly. So, you know,

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