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World War Two spies and an extraordinary naturalist

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2015

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Bestselling military historian Sir Max Hastings joins us to discuss his new book The Secret War. Meanwhile, we speak to historian and author Andrea Wulf about Alexander von Humboldt who made great strides in natural sciences in the 18th and 19th centuries Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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In the context of a war in which soldiers sailors and airmen are risking their lives every day to a lot of

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of course it stopped being fun if you ended up in a concentration camp or against the wall

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that was sir max hastings talking about Second World War spies.

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