Hello History Hit listeners, as you are listening to this right now at this exact second I am

currently on an epic cross-country road trip of England. 600 miles and 1 million years of history

from the first humans through to Stonehenge, Dovercastle, Hastings up to Ironbridge in the

Black Country and to the northeast where I'm visiting a Cold War bunker in York.

I want to hear from you. I want to do more stops. Tell me when I should stop. Any local tips or

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this week on Instagram and Twitter at the History Guy on both and then you can hear the whole thing as a

podcast series next week. Thanks and enjoy this episode.

We're moving forward through open country and as you'll hear Sam Mendes believe that would make for a better

historical backdrop for a great film than endless positional warfare in the trenches.

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So here's Sam Mendes, I do want you to go and see the movie. It is absolutely remarkable to watch and go and do it on the biggest screen possible.

So I'm going to say thank you very much for coming on the show. It's a great pleasure to have you here.

I mean the pleasure is all mine, this film is extraordinary. All right okay let's start at the end. Talk to me about your

ancestor who we met at the end of the film last thing we hear about. Yes well it's dedicated to my grandfather Alfred who fought in the war of

the 1960s and 1980s and arrived there as a 17 year old chose to enlist and never really spoke about it there after two

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