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history magazine.

I'm Ellie Cawthorthorn. Today you'll hear another lecture for my 2019 History Weekend event in Chester

on an ingenious operation from the Second World War. The speaker is Simon Parkin, who's revealing the story behind his book A Game of Birds and Wolves.

The book tells the story of a team that develop a battleship-like war game

in order to crack German new boat tactics at the height of the Battle of the Atlantic.

So, yes, I'm going to talk to you about my new book and the story therein.

When I was a child, my brother and I spent our

summer holidays at our grandparents' house in Devon. They loved board games and had an old

wooden chess that was filled with them. One day, in amongst the boxes of Scrabble, Monopoly,

and Bagatellel, we found a copy of battleships.

Now, this wasn't the plasticy tabletop version with which I'm sure you're all familiar,

but a luxurious version of the game that was played out on a giant map that had to be

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