It's hardcore history, a tantrum.

I've always said some of the best things we do around here are apologies.

And so I want to apologize if it seems as though our subject matter and the stuff we're

talking about lately all kind of falls into a narrow sort of subject matter or a historical

period.

It's mostly been 20th century stuff.

It's not by design, but I don't work by design.

I work on inspiration and sometimes opportunity, for example, the opportunity to get a guest

like the one we have today.

So things don't always work out in a balanced sort of way.

What will probably happen is that we'll end up flipping at a certain point and then I'll

start getting emails from people saying, why do you never talk about 20th century stuff?

So we're just probably balancing things out in the other direction.

I'm going to talk to certain max hastings today.

Those of you who like military history have certainly read his work.

He's fantastic.

He wrote in Fernow.

He wrote a lot of other books.

If you look at his resume, as it exists now, well, if you had shown that to me when I was

21 years old, I would have said, oh, that's the guy I want to be.

His resumes long as hack.

I mean, foreign correspondent for the BBC editor in chief of the daily telegraph editor of

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