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Acton Acton, welcome to We Have Ways of Making You Talk USA with me, Al Murray, James Holland and John McMannis.

How are we, Chaps?

Yeah, they're all good.

Oh, good.

And excited about your book.

Oh, well, thanks.

Congrats on the book.

And then, John, you've just read it, haven't you?

So, um, absolutely.

Come on.

Yes, I said, I sent you a PDF because it's not out in America yet.

So, hopefully, it'll hit some American airports somewhere.

We'll have it copies of it.

No, no, no.

But the book's called, come on, how the Allies learn to win the Second World War.

And what I tried, what I tried to do is use ten sort of essays about people at different stages of the war.

Some of them very well known and some of them obscure to try and chart from shock to feet to, in my view,

crushing victory by the end of the war and what lessons had to be digested and what realities had to be faced.

But also, and the impact they have on those ultimate victories.

And I think one of the things that's really interesting is what you're not doing.

You're not giving a pot in history of their entire career and kind of, you know, this is what they did and they went to West Point and they did this and they did that.

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