Potch it, Potch it, which is of course Macedonian for act-un, act-un. Where are we going to do? English.

Look, James, this is your problem, is your Anglo-American bias revealing itself yet again.

Sometimes people ask why James and I are so obsessed with the war and frankly most of the time we don't bother.

And St Satcheluda, because question, we just give those people a withering pitying.

Look, obviously. But Macedonia, Macedonia is actually an interesting casing point as the ongoing relevance of World War II history.

When North Macedonia applied for membership of the EU, recently the Bulgarian government said it won't support the neighbours' candidature until they removed the phrase Bulgarian fascist occupiers from all World War II history.

All World War II historical landmarks. How about that?

Now James, you've been in the US every year.

Well, there's the National World War II museum down in New Orleans, which is amazing and gets bigger every time I go there.

And they have this, what they call a conference, but really is a kind of World War II literary history festival I suppose.

And they've just opened a new hotel, which they've got there, the Higgins Hotel. And it's absolutely fantastic.

They've got a boardroom in the hotel, which has Eisenhower's map from Savick Park, Savick House on the wall.

And it's got some pictures of the war all over the place and stuff. And it's very nice and comfortable.

And the conference is a great thing. And in between having left New Orleans, I then went up to Washington and on to Carlo Barracks, which is where the US Army War College is.

And they have a fantastic archives there. And everyone there is spectacularly helpful.

I mean, it's really interesting going around the world going to these various archives because they're all so different.

And the moment you leave one, you sort of forget how it works. So you always have to spend a little bit of time when you get there trying to remember how what their operating system is.

So amazingly, the German one is really, really chaotic. I mean, Teton and F11C, no. I mean, that is absolutely chaos.

The main American one is just totally baffling an incomprehensible. I mean, how are you all going to hang up? I never know.

And thank God there's a whole load of sort of archivist there to help you. But you go to the war college one, the US Army Heritage and Education Center.

And it's so straightforward. It's so simple. You say, this is what I want to look at. And they go, oh, this is what you want. Then you fill out a docket and five minutes later, there it is.

And so last week I was finally looking at the papers of General Gavin, the much talked about Jerry Gavin. He was fantastic. It was absolutely brilliant.

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