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Sep 2024
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200. Battleground '44 - Black Tuesday at...

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About this episode

Joining Saul on this episode of Battleground '44 is Al Murray, co-host of our sister podcast - We Have Ways of Making You Talk, and author of Arnhem: Black Tuesday: The Classic Battle as Never Told Before.


Together they look at the the events on Tuesday September 19, 1944 - a terrible day for British forces at Arnhem, and ask discuss why it all went so wrong and what could've been done differently.


If you have any thoughts or questions, you can send them to - podbattleground@gmail.com

Producer: James Hodgson

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