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Hello and welcome history friends, patrons all all to a special collaboration episode.

Recently, myself and Alec Avedakov of the Life and Times of Frederick the Great podcast, sat down to talk about Frederick the Great and his invasion of Silesia in December 1740.

Now, I love doing these collaboration episodes talking about other history podcasters about

areas of history they're really interested in is, of course, right up my street. And if you know me,

you know that I'm a big fan of Freddie as well. We've covered his exploits to this period in our

Poland's not yet lost Patreon series

which of course you should check out

although it should be set on a biased source

when it comes to that and I would love to do

more of these collaboration episodes

it's just the actual lack

of time and

thankfully Alec has been very patient

with arranging all these things

so yeah make sure and check out his

podcast. He's only 21 years old, as far as I'm aware, so he's a full 10 years younger than me,

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