Okay, we are alive. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on today's show. I have a very special guest. His name is Martin Dugard, and he's just published a book. You can see this on YouTube or Rockfin. Title of the book is Taking Berlin, the Bloody Race to Defeat the Third Reich. And there's a Kindle, audio book and hardcover of this. And his website is his full name,

Martin Dugard, last name is spelled, D-U-G-A-R-D. And he is the New York Times best-selling author of

several works of history. Another book in kind of similar terms to this one is Taking Paris.

There's another one called Into Africa, the epic adventures of Stanley and Livingston.

I've done a show on that.

And also, he has done the killing series with Bill O'Reilly, and those have sold more than 10 million copies, so very successful.

He's also a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and he spends time coaching high school cross-country and track near Southern California.

And it's an application which he's indulgent for the last 20 years as documented in his essay to be a runner.

And some of his book titles are The Murder of King Tut, the last voyage of Columbus,

farther than any man, the rise and fall

of Captain James Cook, knockdown,

and surviving the toughest race on Earth.

He's also lived on the island of Pulao Tiga

during the filming of Survivors' inaugural season.

I think Survivors are almost 30 seasons now, or something crazy of Survivor's inaugural season. I think Survivor's almost 30 seasons now or something crazy.

Survivor's inaugural season to write the best-selling Survivor with mega producer Mark

Burnett.

But again, we're going to talk about this book.

I've done a lot of shows on World War II, so I'm kind of familiar with the history.

It does a great job of kind of taking you into the whole panoramic view of really what was

happening in Europe and Russia and the UK and all the personalities involved. You can see these

personalities on his book cover. Again, the title of the book is taking Berlin the bloody race

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