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We're looking back 80 years to March 1945 when events shift finally and dramatically on the Northwestern

European Front. By then, of course, the strategic balance tilted ever more in the Allies'

favour after the failure of the German Ardennes offensive. Germany was much weakened, and

the final battle that was really going to might have

actually tilted the war away from the Allies' advantage had been overcome. With great cost,

it must be said, and with a huge difficulty. But by the spring of 1945, basically Germany is

going into the last chapter of its war, and the advantage very much

in men in material and in geographical positioning is on the side of the Allies. Of course,

the big barrier in front of them is the Rhine River and various other waterways that run north

to south on the frontier of Germany.

So we're going to talk about all that today. And of course, Saul is supremely well placed to give

us his expertise. His latest book, Sky Warriors, British Airborne Forces in the Second World War,

came out to much acclaim and, of course got into the best seller list

last year, and it's now about to come out and paperback. So if you didn't buy it in hardback,

go out new cheapskates and get it in paperback. So this is something you really don't have a

a lot about. But funnily enough, a lot of people don't do they. What other strange things about

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