Acton, acton and welcome to We Have Ways of Make You Talk with me James Holland now a few weeks ago

Alan I spoke at the National Army Museum about his new book Command

We decided as a bit of a Christmas treat to share it with you all hope you enjoyed

Well, good evening one and all just showing out which leg to cross. Sorry, it's better. Well, our family did this. I was in that seat

Yeah, I know, I know. It's completely thrown in here completely. So we like Anten Decker the wrong way round and we've taken off our Monty sweaters

Yeah, we've realised we've become twins. Yeah, yeah, anyway, yeah, we're here to talk about this fabulous book

Come on and we've talked a lot and we out about the fact that it was all inevitable really strategic earthquake society

You know full of France and and

Pearl Harbor apart from that it was all basically preordained

We're tapping into Phillips-Pace no Brian. We kind of we believe all is his numbers and figures and all the rest

Yeah

But there's a part that has the house. There has to be a part. There has to be a part because this people involved

Yeah, and

I've been you know Stalin Stalin in in November of 1941 says this is a war of engines the person that could the side that could produce the most engines will win

And he's saying that when the you know the enemy are at the gates and he's saying that which I think is which is very interesting

And in a way this is a this is a Marxist argument is that is that the economics will dictate the outcome

There's got to be there's got to be

It's got to be people in it and the economics are extraordinary

You know that the American the British Americans produce ten times as many trucks as the Germans possibly can

Yeah

British aircraft manufacturing

Outstrips German aircraft manufacturing regardless and then America when the American factories kick in

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