Greetings fellow time travellers, always lovely to have you with me for the journey through space and time.

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That's the Adver over. It's now time to strap yourselves into the time machine as we set off in the next stop on my love letter to the world.

Record, microphone, action.

A powerful controlling shadow stretching out and covering a land from China to Europe and the Siberian coast, arrogant, proud and driven to

dominate any and all, the last of the great Mongol can's flexing muscles.

140,000 soldiers and 4,000 warships bristling with arms and armaments launch an

invasion of Japan.

Hopelessly outnumbered the Japanese forces face certain death when suddenly a typhoon raises its terrifying head and a

Japanese legend is born kamikaze the divine wind.

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