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James Holland is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning historian, writer, and broadcaster. The author of a number of best-selling histories including most recently Brothers In Arms and Normandy '44, he is also the author of nine works of fiction and a dozen Ladybird Experts. He is the co-founder of the annual Chalke Valley History Festival which is now in its twelfth year, and he has presented - and written - many television programmes and series for the BBC, Channel 4, National Geographic and the History and Discovery channels. With Al Murray, he has a successful Second World War podcast, We Have Ways of Making You Talk, which also has its own festival, and is a research fellow at St Andrew's University and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He can be found on Twitter as @James1940 and on Instagram as @jamesholland1940.
Richly impressive, hard to surpass -- William Boyd A notable account of an epic human experience -- Max Hastings * Sunday Times * The best of the new generation of WW2 historians -- Sebastian Faulks Great...One of the new generation of historians who bring a freshness and a proper spirit enquiry -- John Sergeant * Sunday Express * A master of spinning narrative military history from accounts of men and women who were there * BBC History magazine *
