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🗓️ 21 April 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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The Siege of Bastogne is one of the Second World War's most infamous battles, fought in the frostbitten forests of Belgium. But what is the story of the men that fought there in December 1944?
Al Murray, James Holland and John C McManus explore the bloodshed - and if it was worth it.
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0:00.0 | Music |
0:11.0 | Ackton Ackton, welcome to We Have Ways of Making Your Talk USA with me, |
0:14.7 | I'm Armarie James Holland and John McManus and well, I mean, John, the topic you want to talk about today, |
0:23.2 | I'm sure we'll immediately, let's just get on with it because this is going to be |
0:28.6 | a good talk about it. It's very, very, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, |
0:30.9 | Can I, can I just say the word? Yeah, go on. Beston. |
0:34.3 | Beston. Beston. |
0:35.6 | It's just a magical word, isn't it? You can't say, and you can't say it in a, in a Belgian accent |
0:41.6 | or a French accent or an English accent, it has to be beston. |
0:45.7 | It does. |
0:46.8 | So, so, um, now, I mean, I think we, we can, I think we can assume that people, |
0:53.9 | well, no, which campaign we're probably talking about. |
0:56.8 | Um, um, |
0:58.4 | I think, but for those who don't know, those days, days two people who've never heard of it, |
1:04.6 | the Battle of the Bulge. Okay, Vachton Rhein, what, what, the, |
1:08.2 | the, our denoffensive, second, our denoffensive, I suppose. |
1:11.0 | Um, but John, you particularly want to talk about the, the rush for beston, |
1:15.4 | which to you is the, which to you is the crux of the, of the, of the matter. |
1:21.0 | So, do you want to just set, set up, set up how that, how we arrive at that and then, |
1:26.2 | and then take us through it? Because you've written about this and I, I, I've really fancy |
1:30.7 | shutting up and listening, um, yeah, me too. |
1:33.4 | To what you have to say. |
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