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So I'm joined today remotely from UK by Sir Max Hastings, who's an author, journalist, and broadcaster whose work has appeared in

every British national newspaper.

He has written regularly for the Daily Mailin Financial Times and reviewed books for the

Sunday Times and New York Review of Books. He has published more than 20 books during an over 40 year writing career

among the most recent of which are catastrophe 1914. All hell let loose which

here in the United States was released as Inferno.

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