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Hello everyone and welcome to History of the Second World War.

This episode is the first interview for the podcast, but certainly not the last.

Last week, I released the War Spites special, and when I did, I did all the normal social media stuff.

When I posted on Twitter, Ian Ballantineyne was tagged by one of my listeners.

And for every series of episodes for the podcast or special episode, there is a foundational source.

Sometimes it's the book I read first.

Sometimes it's the book I found to be the most useful.

But there's always something that functions as kind of a baseline for all of my other

research. For the Warspite special, that book was Mr. Ballantyne's Warspite. After a bit of back and

forth on Twitter, we ended up arranging an interview that was done just this past Wednesday,

and I wanted to get it out as soon as possible. I hope you enjoy our conversation.

We discussed a few pieces of the podcast and some of the research that Mr.

Ballanty did for his book.

If you would like to check out any of Mr. Ballantyne's books,

you can find a link in the show notes or on the website at History of the Second World War.com

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