Hi everyone, welcome to HistoryIt. On the Pod today we have another episode of Warfare,

our sibling podcast. They're talking all about bond over there, prof-cloud-dods, telling

us everything we need to know about e-inflaming and the birth of bond. This one went bonkers

on their feed, so I thought we'd bring it over and shout out to the bigger audience.

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Hi, Klaus, great to have you on the podcast. How you doing today?

Good thanks, it's nice to be with you. I'm sort of currently looking out the window

in my small office in my home and there's some snow falling gently to the ground, which

suddenly appeals to me, given my other interests in colder parts of the world.

Yeah, are you all snowed in or is it a nice kind of serene landscape as opposed to a

difficult one? Well, given that I'm based in London, so we're

sort of usually at the milder part of the UK weather experience. I suspect if I was

talking to you from the north of England or Scotland, I'd probably say there's an awful

lot of snow on the ground, but I would say a light dusting, you can see a little bit of

snow on cars, but that's about it. Okay, well that's good and it can't be as cold as the

place that I last encountered. You, as you say, you're an expert on colder places, especially

the Arctic and Arctic security. And the last time I saw you, we were in Iceland, discussing

Russian and Chinese activity in the Arctic. In fact, it's very apt to have you on the podcast

to discuss James Bond and the Second World War because as we sit in that dim-lit bar

in a freezing recu-vit with a professor of war studies and a national security adviser,

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