This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batchel with the historian James Holland. His new book is Brothers in Arms.

One legendary tank regiment's bloody war from D-Day to VE Day. We've got them on shore. We've got them with a mission now.

And their mission is the high ground, as James is going to introduce us to a big picture of why watching the Sherman

range of the Sherwood Rangers yeomanry and their engagement their gunfight is part of the

larger story of the Allied success from 6 June until the capture of Paris and then all across

France and Belgium.

James, it's always been part of the story that Khan, the big city, was supposed to be captured

within first hours or first days by Montgomery's Army Corps, and that the failure to capture

Khan for many weeks was a weakness in the Allied

plan. That was always the reporting back home. Not accurate. And you're going to illustrate

in your, you illustrate in your story, the facts of the Sherwood Rangers and also all of the British and Canadian and

Scottish divisions locking horns with the very best the Germans had. You mentioned the 12 SS

Pancers who have already committed war crimes by executing Canadians, but also arriving over the next days, the Panser-Lear Division,

headed by General Lieutenant Fritz Bayerlin.

What is the big picture of why it's important to pay attention to 0.103 and the battle over Fontenay?

Yeah, well, so, so, Conn, is, you know, normally just sticks out on a limb in north,

northwest France.

And con is the hinge because it's a key nodal point.

It's got rivers going through it.

It's got a railway line.

It's got main roads and all the rest of it.

And when you, from con, you can sweep eastwards up towards Paris up towards

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