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Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.

I'm Ellie Corthorne, as I'm sure many of you will know, today, the 6th of June, marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day.

So for today's episode, our editor Rob Atar spoke to the military historian James Holland,

who's the author of a new book about the Normandy campaign about the

Allied invasion of 1944. So five years ago, you wrote a piece for our magazine arguing that it was

time to silence the D-Day Doubters. Having written your new book, is that an opinion you still hold?

Absolutely. And I think what happened in the intervening five years is I didn't really feel that the doubters had been silenced. And I was still hearing the same worn old narrative. And I think one of the problems is that, you know, the D-Day story is a very familiar one in the Normandy campaign. It's one that's been written about Adphanitum. It's one that's been the subject of God knows how many documentaries and movies and all the rest of it.

Hollywood's taken over quite a big way, I think, the narrative of it. It's very American-dominated.

And, you know, distortions have crept in. And, you know, I just think a lot of these myths have grown up because of its very familiarity.

And I just think it's time that everyone kind of

kick those into touch and there's a kind of broader, wider perspective to throw at this, to be

honest. Let's sort of begin at the beginning we could. Why the 6th of June 1944 and should it

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