Hello everyone welcome back to the history hit warfare podcast I'm your host James Rogers and if it's your first time here well we are dedicated to the history of warfare from Napoleonic battles and Cold War

Confrontations through to the Normandy Landings and 9-11.

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It really helps us to get out there to everyone who loves history. Now we have Gwyn Dyer on the

podcast. Gwyn is a historian, a journalist, a former lecturer at Sandhurst and he's also an Oscar-nominated filmmaker for his documentaries on warfare.

He's also published numerous books, the most recent of which is the shortest history of war published by Old Street publishing. We speak a little about this new book, but as more of a context for the real focus of this podcast, which is Gwyn's work on climate wars. You see, long before climate change was making

the headlines around the world and the UN was raising red alerts for humanity, Gwyn wrote

one of the first books on the idea that climate change places such stress

on society that it can lead to increased tensions, conflict, and war.

This will be the focus of Gwyn's next book as well and so he is up to date with the

latest data and the ways to mitigate climate change and climate wars. Enjoy. Hi Gwen, thank you so much for coming on the history hit Warfare Podcast. How are you doing today?

Very well, thank you, James. Good, good. Where are you doing today? Very well, thank you, James.

Good, where are you in the world?

I know you've been traveling a lot recently as the world opens up, you're doing research for your next project.

Well, this is the first time we've left into an 18 months, but we are now in Vancouver visiting one of our many offspring who are scattered across the world, from Perth Australia to Vancouver, one left in England in Bristol.

Well, why leave Bristol? It is a fantastic city. How many children do you have?

Five actually. Oh, wow. Not biologically but I acquired some more along the way. You know how it is.

Absolutely. Yes, fantastic. Well, Vancouver is also a beautiful city as well. I can see why you'd want to move there.

How long are you in Vancouver for?

We're here for another two weeks, somewhere home.

Oh, brilliant. Well, enjoy it, because I'm in London right now and I can tell you what summer has ended Gwyn it is very cloudy

outside so enjoy as much as you can while you're up there in Canada.

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