The number one bestseller Max Hastings returns with Sword.

Sword tells the story of a baptism of fire,

of how 35,000 young men found themselves thrust into the whitest heat of war

on Sword Beach in Normandy on June 6, 1944.

What did all those young men think, feel during the terrifying experiences of that day?

This is their story.

Sword.

D-Day Trial by Battle by Max Hastings is out now in hardback, e-book and audiobook.

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Oates, my everything. Vassatos, over to you. He's the multi-award winning actor who's equally wonderful in a modern family and on a modern stage.

He currently stars in the new musical. Here we are at the National Theatre in London.

So here he is Never Messy, always successy,

Jesse Tyler Ferguson. Oh my God, Jesse. What have you done to my life in the last 24 hours?

Thank you for coming on the show because it meant I somehow got invited to the Modern Family Party. Good morning, good morning.

Good morning. We're happy to have you. I get it, man. I get it. But you know, not everyone watches it. And that's okay.

Well, everybody will watch it if I have two-part of like the final ever episode of modern family, which I have seen. And so we're going to talk about, actually, there's three

major ingredients, well, there's four, there's you, there's your podcast, which I love. Oh, thank you.

There's the modern family, the TV show, the phenomenon, the TV phenomenon, and there's this

new musical that you're in called Here We Are, which Tilly went to you last night, and has not stopped talk, talk it, babbling on about that,

whilst blubbing, co-blobbing with me about, because she, she, she, I came in this morning in

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