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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Machine Guns, Crete and the End of the War

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

Education, History, Society & Culture

4.85.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Al Murray and James Holland talk about the effectiveness of machine gun fire throughout the 20th century and the battle for Crete. The boys also discuss the fantastic new book by friend of the show Peter Caddick-Adams about the final days of the Second World War. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello there, Almari here.

0:02.0

Now I'm not sure if I've mentioned it at all on my podcast,

0:05.4

we have ways of making you talk,

0:07.0

but I have a book out.

0:08.4

Command, how the Allies learned to win the Second World War,

0:11.6

published this autumn by headline.

0:13.6

You can buy it everywhere,

0:14.9

and there's an audiobook out too, unaudible,

0:17.2

if you aren't sick of the sound I'm voice by now.

0:19.7

The book uses ten officers,

0:21.6

the different stages of the war,

0:23.3

to try to tell the story of how the British

0:25.6

and the Americans went from such a poor start

0:28.5

to sweeping all before them.

0:30.8

From Montgomery before he was Monty

0:32.7

during the Phoney War,

0:33.6

to Freiberg at Crete,

0:35.3

by Francis Tuker in the Deserts of North Africa.

0:37.9

Command takes in the period

0:39.6

when the British and Imperial forces

0:41.2

just couldn't get it right,

0:42.9

with a detour through Burma

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