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Happy Christmas, wherever you may be, from Saul David and me, Patrick Bishop.

Well, as promised, we thought it would be a nice idea for the battleground team to produce a special episode as the year closes to have a look at some of the standout military history books that have come

our way this year and to talk about them and the wider stories around them. The idea is not to give

a detailed critique of the books in question, just to use them as a starting point for a discussion

and let the talk flow. Yes, indeed. So to help oil the wheels, we've got two guests with us,

who also happen to be friends.

Jesse Charles is an expert in 16th century British history, the winner of numerous awards and her latest book, The Siege of Loyalty House, a new history of the Civil War, which was

a Times, Sunday Times Guardian, telegraph, spectator, the critic and Mail on Sunday, Book of the Year.

Good to have you with us, Jesse. And alongside her, we've got Richard Foreman, a very old friend of both of ours.

Richard started out as a bookseller in the Leavenhall Market Branch of Waterstones, but that was not going to detain him for long.

He went on to found a publishing house and also founded the London

History Festival and generally became what you might call a history entrepreneur, as well as writing

historical novels himself. Welcome Richard.

Evening, everyone, and happy Christmas. Okay, well now the introductions are done. Our glasses are

charged. The mintas are in the oven,

so it's standby to was sale. I'm going to start off. I think blunging at two books,

which came out in here. Cullids, the castle in Germany, where the Germans sent their

naughtiest prisoners of war in the belief that it was escape proof, which of course it turned

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