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Hi everyone, welcome to Dance Nose History. We've got a big one for you. One of the greatest living historians on the podcast now is Professor Richard Overy, he's a professor of history at XT University and he is quite literally the world's foremost expert on the Second World War.

I think Ferdinand's books are essential reading for anybody interested in the greatest conflict the world's ever known. He's just written a new one called Blood and Bruins, the Great Imperial War.

And importantly, he gives the dates as 1931 to 45. He makes it very clear that the fighting we think of as a build-up to Second World War is in fact an essential part of that great clash, not just a minor precursor.

Next week on the anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War, I'll do another one of my podcasts when I start off one vlog. I'll talk everyone through just how, when and why, Second World War broke out.

But this episode features someone who is a lot more qualified now. So this is going to be an essential listening if you're interested in that. And hopefully I can add a bit of detail here and there.

It was great to finally have Richard Overy on the podcast. It's been too long.

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And the meantime, everyone here is Professor Richard Overy. Enjoy.

Richard, thank you very much for coming on the podcast. I pleasure.

I've had a feeling for a long time. In a hundred years time, people are not going to feel about the second mobile, the way that many do today, which is this kind of mess on it once in a thousand years struggle against evil.

But it will be seen within the context of the great European great power wars, the global war, the war of spanish succession, seven years war, Napoleon, it was Fred Frolyushi wars, first and second.

They will be seen as having much more in common than at the moment we think they're dissimilar.

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