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size of this one, it's just a juicy nugget. Jays is writing his book, is in Locked Away

in a secret location that cannot be used, except for the last two podcasts.

Now you're writing about Sisly, now first things first, it's an interesting, Sisly is

often one of those things that doesn't get the full go over because it's a stepping stone,

isn't it? It's one of the operations that the Allies do that isn't a clenching moment

in itself or seen as such, is it? Or decisive moments in itself? It's basically a getting

from A to B. And you'll often read about it like kind of in passing. I mean, very often

you read about two disobey in passing, that you know, you get L Alamane is the big showbiz

battle, second Alamane that ends effectively puts the seal on the war in the desert,

doesn't end it, but puts the seal on it. And then of course, the first army teller, you

go, you go, great big thing going on, right? Anyway, I think it's all quite, it's quite

interesting. So the point I'm making is Sisly, Sisly doesn't often find itself under

the spotlight like this, does it? That's reflected in publishing. I mean, it is quite

interesting how publishing works because of course, you know, there's lots of books

on the battle of Britain, lots of books on D-Day and so on and you know, I've been there

and done that and got the t-shirt. You know, but I've been to Sisly a lot and I've been

to Sisly actually a couple of times a few times with the army, you know, they still occasionally

do these, what they used to call Star Fry's, they now just called Battlefield Studies.

And it's fascinating going to these places with guys who obviously, in a lot of them,

have seen quite a lot of action, you know, whether it be in Iraq or Afghanistan and so on.

And so, and we think about about Sisly particularly, a lot of the terrain is not massively dissimilar

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