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Of telling you exactly which book, you know, we said which author it often was and which is story, but we didn't tell you which books we were specifically using information from or whatnot. We were pretty good about the Elizabeth Carney book, Olympia, which as I said, you ought to go pick that up if you like that stuff. She did a great job. She's become the the go-to person on that issue, at least in English. In every book you see that talks about Olympia's even in a in a tangent kind of way, references her. I used two different Peter Green books. One was a Alexander of Macadon 356 to 323 BC, a historical biography. This is the updated, it's been updated and revised several times. This one came out I think in the mid early to mid 1990s, but the original work was in 1970 work. And then of course, for those of you who are the Hellenistic junkies, the tome for people who are interested in the period, Alexander to Actium, the historical evolution of the Hellenistic Age, the word comprehensive does not do it justice and the whole politics and strategy and all that kind of stuff is just one little chunk of what it deals with. We also use Robin Waterfield's dividing the spoils, the war for Alexander the Great's Empire. A great book, I mean he does as good of a job as I think you can do, simplifying this stuff and bringing out a bunch of the really interesting aspects because it can get dry if you don't dive in and show the relationships between these people and the things that really makes it really interesting. I think he does a great job of that. We quoted A.B. Bosworth and that was from his book Conquest, an Empire of the Rain of Alexander the Great. Bosworth of course, one of my Australian historian, one of my favorite in terms of, he just his view of Alexander the Great is fascinating. And perhaps, perhaps the right one, I mean, sometimes I read this stuff and I go, wow, that could really be the way the guy was. Finally, we used Richard A. Gabriel's book Philip II of Macadonia, greater than Alexander for some of the stuff as well. And you know, we always put this stuff in the show notes, which are on our website at dancarlin.com. We link these books directly to a place like a major online bookseller where you can buy them right away, one click, whatever it is, we encourage you to do so. We like books and we like these people or we wouldn't abuse them. So if you're thinking about buying them, we'll go to the website and check them out and maybe that would be just the Christmas gift for yourself for next year's Christmas. Why wait?