Hello everyone we've had a rebrand you may have noticed we are now the history hit warfare

podcast with me as your host James Rogers so some things don't change but along with this new name

we've got an exciting new broader focus.

Each week, three times a week, we're going to be bringing you episodes that range from

the First and Second World War as per usual, but can stretch all the way back to the birth of modern warfare itself and all the

way through to the secret conflicts of the Cold War, the hidden aspects of the war on terror,

and everything warfare from our recent history.

So stay tuned and be sure to like, follow, share and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

Now as a war historian, I can tell you that it's pretty darn difficult to get hold of some

of the sources sometimes, especially if you're looking into top secret missions and top

secret intelligence. I can take you back to last summer I spent three weeks in a

stifling underground nuclear strategy archive and agency that will remain

nameless trying to find out some of the secrets from the Cold War.

At all times I was pretty much under lock and key and under guard and not even able to go to and from

the toilet without someone accompanying me.

And this makes our next guest even more amazing because it is Professor John Ferris,

the author of the new, best-selling book of 2020, I think, called Behind the Enigma,

the Authorised History of G.C. Britain's secret cyber intelligence agency. And he's here to tell us about the secret history

of British co-breaking from the First World War, through the Second World War, and even through

to the Snowden scandal. How does he know what he knows? Well he is the

authorized historian of G. C. H. Q. He has been down into those archives. He has

spoken with the secret spies and he has had all the

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