Italian Hell: San Pietro, Monte Sammucro and Night Fighting

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

History, Education, Society & Culture

4.8 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Al Murray, James Holland and John McManus discuss the Allies' experience of fighting in the mountains of Italy in the brutal winter of 1943’ - especially the horrendous conditions in San Pietro and Monte Sammucro. John details the evolution of fighting under the cover of darkness, and the dangers it entails. A Goalhanger Production Produced by Joey McCarthy Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Social: @WeHaveWaysPod Website: wehavewayspod.com Members’ Club: patreon.com/wehaveways Email: wehavewayspodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to We Have Ways of Making You Talk.
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0:11.0	with money off books and museum visits as well plus early access to all live
0:15.1	show tickets that's patron dot com slash we have ways And I'm, Alam, welcome to We Have Ways of Making You Talk, USA with Me Al Murray, John McManus, and James Holland.
0:40.3	Our last meeting, I think, before the Christmas break obviously do you have turkey on Christmas
0:46.5	day because you do turkey on Thanksgiving don't you? Yeah I mean some people do turkey a lot of people do you you know, Prime Rib or Pam or, you know, there's a lot of different possibilities.
0:57.3	It's not like, you know, Turkey exclusive the way Thanksgiving tends to be.
1:01.7	Right, yeah, okay.
1:02.7	We stuff our faces one way or the other.
1:04.7	Not too much.
1:05.6	How about you guys?
1:08.5	We're having a goose.
1:09.9	I'm cooking a goose.
1:10.8	Why you?
1:11.8	That's that That's...
1:13.0	Okay, that's...
1:14.0	Yeah, absolutely.
1:15.0	Yeah, I think Turkey is an American import, isn't it?
1:19.0	I mean... Well, necessarily, yeah.
1:21.0	Yeah, but I mean, my point is, is that it used to be, you know,
1:24.6	the Christmas meal was a goose, wasn't it? And then it suddenly sort of
1:27.6	changed at the turn of the 20th century, I think. But this isn't called
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