D-Day - Sand and Steel w/ Peter Caddick-Adams
When Diplomacy Fails Podcast
Zack Twamley
4.8 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2019
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
75 Years ago, our ancestors made a brave step towards the liberation of France from the most terrible of tyranny. Now, with the considerable help of Dr Peter Caddick-Adams, historian, journalist, author, reservist and more, I delve into this event, using the recently released book Sand and Steel - a New History of D-Day by the author as my guide. We get into so much detail here, and a huge thanksss must go out to Peter for being so swell and coming onto the show - I had a ball talking with him!
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| 0:00.0 | This holiday season, Amazon brings you an unmissable month of festive football. |
| 0:07.6 | What a fantastic night of football. |
| 0:10.9 | Including 10 Premier League games. |
| 0:13.9 | It doesn't get much better than that. |
| 0:17.2 | And Tuesday's UEFA Champions League must watch match. |
| 0:22.3 | The biggest live games from the biggest leagues all wrapped up. |
| 0:28.0 | It's on Prime. |
| 0:36.2 | This holiday season, Amazon brings you an unmissable month of festive football. |
| 0:42.2 | What a fantastic night of football. |
| 0:45.6 | Including 10 Premier League games. |
| 0:48.5 | It doesn't get much better than that. |
| 0:51.9 | And Tuesday's UEFA Champions League must watch match. |
| 0:57.0 | The biggest live games from the biggest leagues all wrapped up. |
| 1:02.9 | It's on Prime. |
| 1:06.8 | Hello there history, friends. Happy anniversary. |
| 1:10.0 | What anniversary you might be thinking? Well, if you just |
| 1:12.7 | stumbled upon this episode and don't actually realize, today the 6th of June 2019 is the 75th anniversary |
| 1:20.1 | of the D-Day landings. A little while ago I had an idea, wouldn't it be cool if we got someone on |
| 1:25.8 | in time to mark this anniversary who was |
| 1:28.6 | releasing a book of some kind? And it just so happened that Dr. Peter Caddick Adams was doing |
| 1:34.4 | exactly that, releasing his book called Sand and Steel, which is the most comprehensive, |
| 1:41.4 | brilliantly written, researched piece on the D-Day landings that I think exists today. |
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