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Joye no el, Joye no el midemis, you're fit to touch your upper baguille.

Touch your axles, okay. More and more outrageous.

That's of course French from Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas ladies and gentlemen, look out for your luggage.

I think we'll be the next few days, well, next few days in the last couple of days.

James and I have been reading our bits of our favourite Christmas passages.

And bits of just our favourite books about World War II for you to enjoy, we hope.

What have you got for us today, James?

Well, I've got Brave Men by Ernie Pyle and he's writing, he's just absolutely fantastic.

And he was the first, he was a real supine, he's an incredibly famous man in America during the Second World War.

And actually before the Second World War and he used to work for the script's Howard,

Newspaper Syndicate. And before the war he would write all these little bits about, you know,

just travelling through America and it was just sort of day-to-day life, it was the ordinary Joe.

You know, what they were up to and he'd have conversations with them.

And he had this incredibly sort of empathetic way of writing about them.

And he'd bring in his own voice as well. And no one had written journalism like this before.

So it's a completely new way of doing it, very sort of personalised, bottom man up.

Yeah. And then he became this kind of war reporter.

A correspondent and everyone just loved him even more because they were getting Ernie Pyle's take

from what it was like at the front. And he really put himself in the front line.

And he was there in London, in the blitz, he was there in North Africa, in 1942-43,

there in Sicily, Italy, Normandy and eventually he went out to Japan and Okinawa where he was killed

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