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History Extra podcast - June 2009 - Part 1

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2009

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Antony Beevor discusses his latest book on D-Day and the Battle for Normandy, Helen J Nicholson explains what happened to the Knights Templar who went on trial in Medieval Britain. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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excludes plug-in hybrids, Delantis Financial Services. Hello and welcome to the BBC History Magazine podcast.

0:45.1

I'm Dave Musgrove, the magazine's editor.

0:47.8

Coming up in this podcast...

0:49.7

Even Stalin had to acknowledge that he was one of the greatest adventures

0:53.2

or one of the greatest operations which the world has ever seen.

0:56.6

Anthony Beaver, on D-D-D-D.A. And...

0:59.3

It's not quite, I got this from a man down the pub, but it's a medieval equivalent there.

1:03.4

Helen J. Nicholson describes the strength of evidence against the Templars in their heresy trial 800 years ago.

1:25.5

This twice-monthly podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History magazine,

1:27.8

the UK's best-selling History Monthly.

1:32.9

We'll tell you how to get hold of a copy later. But first, let me hand you over to our features editor, Rob Atar. Yes, for this issue of the magazine, I've done an interview with Anthony Beaver,

1:38.6

the world's best-selling military historian. It's all about his new book on D-Day and the Battle

1:42.9

for Normandy. Here's the selection of that interview, where Anthony talks about how he went about writing the book, the continuing fascination of D-Day, and how he hopes to defeat pro-Hitler conspiracy theorists. And something I've got quite interesting is that the way you researched the book was that I read that you tried to research as much possible using contemporary sources. How did that affect the writing of the book?

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