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Hey folks, welcome to Dan Snow's History here.

The Great Commanders of World War II series has come to an end.

But some of us who've got in touch to howl at me and demand explanation and why this or that person

was not on the list, why they're not included. Where is Yamashita? Where's Slim, Grinarian, Manstein? Where are so

many others? So by popular demand, really, here is a podcast in which we'll

shout out a few other commanders. Sadly, this still won't be comprehensive, but least it gives us a

chance to get a few others out. The ones that we feel really do deserve a mention. Now,

there's any one man I could think of to help me with this. That is Jonathan Bratton,

a long time contributor to this podcast. You'll have heard him on here before. We talked about

the great commanders of history a couple years ago. But he's also, he's accompanied me around

battlefields of the French Indian War, the Seven Years War in North America, and the American

Revolutionary Wars. We were recently in Lexington and Concord together.

He has written books, excellent books.

He's taught the next generation of US Army leaders.

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