Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival,

three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized tent,

Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend.

All right.

Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior.

And don't get us started on Mel.

But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together.

All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group chat.

Keep everyone's plans alive when you travel with us.

P and Dau Ferris, there is another way.

Hello everyone, welcome back to the History Hit Warfare Podcast. I'm your host James

Rogers and in this episode I'm excited to say we've got Professor David

O'Keefe back on the podcast. He's a brilliant Second World War historian and he's going to take us

through the events that happened after D-Day. All of this week we've had special episodes that

looked at what happened before D-Day on the day itself and now David takes us through those pivotal

76 days until the breakout into the rest of Europe. We've got to remember it wasn't just that fierce

battle on the beaches and then breaking through into the

local towns but it carried on with a war of attrition and maneuvering for those 70

plus days. David is the author of a new book called Seven Days in Hell

that follows a Canadian regiment through that period and I would argue it completely

rewrites our understanding of that time because it shows just how ferocious that fighting was.

Truly a war of attrition, perhaps more akin to the First World War than how we'd imagine the second. So here he is

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