There's a Peugeot SUV for everyone and every need.

Sport for choice.

I like it.

From the Compact 2008, the stylish 3008 to the Rumi New 5,08.

Weekend adventures, here we come.

Now available on 0% APR with a minimum 20% deposit.

Sounds like 100% match.

Book a test drive on perjou.com.

Offer ends 30 of September 2025.

Personal contract purchase, subject status and availability, T's and Zs 18 plus,

excludes plug-in hybrids, Delantis Financial Services. Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.

I'm Rob Atar, the magazine's editor.

Today's interview is with Sir Max Hastings, the journalist and military historian, who's the author of numerous best-selling books. His latest is Chastise, the Dambusters story, 1993, which explores the iconic World War II RAF raid

that was immortalised in a 1955 film. I paid a visit to Max in his London home a little while back

to find out more. Now before we begin, I should mention that this interview does include a couple

of mentions of a highly offensive racial slur, which was a code word during the

operation, as well as being the name of Wing Commander Guy Gibson's dog, as some of you may already

be aware. Where did the idea to attack the dams come from in the first place? Well, of course,

all our views about the whole dams raid come from the movie. And in the movie, it's Barnes-Wallis

who thinks of this idea. Well, in fact, the RAF had figured out as far back as 1937-38 that

if it was possible to destroy the Rua industry's water supplies, then this would strike a devastating

blow at power, at mines,

...