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Welcome to the Collette podcast. I'm Ayona Talia and I'm your host this week.

My guest is historian and filmmaker Phil Cray.

Phil is the author or co-author with Tim Clayton of a number of books, including three books on the events of the Second World War.

Finest Hour, the Battle of Britain, the end of the beginning, from the siege of Malta to the Allied victory at El Alamein,

and his latest, which forms the focus of our conversation,

1945, Reckoning, War, Empire, and the Struggle for a New World.

As vivid and immersive as a well-written novel,

1945 A Reckoning charts the key events that took place in theaters of war

that spanned the globe from Berlin to Borneo

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