Hello I'm Krestey Young and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 1992,

and the presenter was Sue Lolly. My cast away this week is a soldier. In January 1991 he took command of the biggest military

operation mounted since the Second World War. He had beneath him a formidable array of weapons

and men. Within a few months he had used them with astonishingly small of A graduate of West Point, he speaks fluent German and French, loves fishing, the opera and Bob Dylan.

War, he says, is a profanity. He is the former Supreme Allied commander during the Gulf War, Stormin Norman, General H. Norman Schwarzkopf.

What's the H-4 general?

H doesn't stand for anything, it's initial only.

My father's name was Herbert Norman-Schwarkov,

and he hated the name Herbert.

He always went by H-Norman in his young life.

He went to West Point Military Academy and when he entered he was handed the standard military

form and said first name middle middle initial, last name.

So he wrote down H. Norman.

They threw it back in his face and said,

can't you read that says first name middle initial?

He filled it out Herbert N and from there on out throughout his entire life every military

form he ever had said Herbert N on it, although he went by Norman.

So when I was born, my dad said this young man is going to West Point and he got his revenge he named me

H Norman and therefore I had only a person. What about the nickname Storm in

Norman? One reads on the one hand that this is because you're fearless in

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