Introduction

This is the dress rehearsal. Oh, it's a full dress rehearsal. What do your elements are there? So who have you got? I've got my usual Macmillan and Clark but I've added Alan Palmer and AJP Taylor. Nice. Yeah. It could not be more of a, it's hard to explain why World War I didn't start here as opposed to using this as a data point for why the lead up to World War I was so much worse than what we saw in 1914-1915. We're back on BBC1 at 10pm tonight with David Walliams' latest book The Second World War: An Uncensored History by Simon & Schuster