Keep it up lads. Love the channel, the podcast and the books 🫡

Grave is not in Holland.

Fantastic series. I visited Fort Hackenberg on the Maginot line a few years ago and that place is incredible, it’s like the Guns of Naverone inside, although the guns are smaller. They have periscope guns that sill rise up out of the fort, it so big you have to use a train to get around. I’m fortunate to live in Luxembourg so the Maginot line is close as is the Siegfried line and all the Battle of the Bulge stuff, some fantastic little local museums as well.

Can't wait guys brilliant 👏

Very enjoyable walk-through history. Original concept, humour, historical accuracy and setting a standard for other similar videos. Murray and Holland [or Holland and Murray]; a brand you can trust. Keep it up and I will follow you.

A filthy tease

Don’t what ever you do tell a random the hexi is kendle mint cake and offer them some, would be a terrible thing that no squaddie has ever done, 🤷‍♂️

Here to crib off you guys for my trip this coming may.

Brilliant all excited now lol

Al, I thought wine was for the ladies...

Brought back to life

Oooo you tease! Why??

Great show love it .Please do Italy or kohima my uncle was killed at the battle of the tennis courts and is buried there

Enjoyed the talks and book regarding the bitter fighting and the role played by the support troops which is often over looked my interest started in the seventies when working with a paratrooper sergeant who was on the second lift but got shot down before reaching the drop zone and became an evader getting back to British lines

Love this series (and sharing it with my dad). Maybe a stupid question but did you know that in the movie A Bridge Too Far the two names on the very first glider to get airborne are the names of two actual glider pilots? One of which wrote an account (Nothing is Impossible) which was apparently used by Cornelius Ryan in his research. (The other pilot was sadly killed why a POW)

Fantastic series. Better than anything on TV these days.

Appreciate you guys making these videos! You two are hilarious plus ultra knowledgeable…Counting the days until the next episodes! Aloha from the Hawaiian Islands…Pat

Will all these be put together in one long film at some point

Very interesting insight at the end about the unexpected and humiliating nature of being captured.

Thank you for this amazing video Al and James and the story behind it. My Uncle was a member of an antitank gun that made it to the bridge. He was part of the HQ battery of the 1st Airlanding Brigade and I proudly bare his name Bombadier Leslie Bluer . He was badly wounded when his gun was hit but managed to survive the war with the help of the citizens of Arnhem and a German doctor when they were finally captured. Many people don’t know what their relatives went through here because the survivors rarely speak about it, and it’s only through these videos we find out exactly what all of these brave men gave up for our freedoms today that are taken for granted far too much by the newer generations. Thank you so much

"...You're not just some nameless paratrooper on a headstone..." - which has a name on it!!!!! James has been at the Trappist Beers again.

I love the series! But I do have a question 😅. Did you guys also visited the Glider Collection at Wolfheze?

why ? why take HQ in Hartenstein,and not closer to the river (high point))? ..becozz Model had it (with Luxuries) so OF COURSE Urqhart HAD to take and hold it as long as possible... False pride...

I love your videos! Just a fantastic look back at the battles of WW2. I always wondered where were the Luftwaffe on D-day? Great videos. Thank you again chaps!.

Oh you guys! Such a tease. Got me all excited.

Please come back to Arnhem/Oosterbeek this year!

Really enjoyed the video can't wait for the next one

This is right up my street. Literally.

IKE must've sedated Patton,, gagged him, hog-tied him,, and kept him in the trunk of a staff car for a week..

Been to Oosterbeek multiple times. What a lovely little town. It is hard to imagine what it was like 80 years ago. I can’t wait to go back to the area, cause you have given me lots of new places to look for.

These videos are really great guys. Thank you so much.

😅 this week's episode wasn't ready in time and once the video editor saw that coming he/she was like 'I got this, hold my beer'

What - I've got to wait a week. WHY?

Bit of a tease this one lads, can’t wait

What Al says about the chances of you meeting someone from the Normandy campaign, who actually fought being slim, is the first I time I have heard that said since I heard similar from my Grandfather. He was in The Rifle Brigade at The Siege of Calais in May 1940. Very fierce fighting and they were eventually forced to surrender. He was in Headquarters Company. He didn't join the British Legion, or go to reunions after the War as he said he knew the people that were there didn't do any of the fighting! It used to annoy him seeing them. He never applied for his medals. My father did it for him, but he didn't want them. I imagine they'll be mine one day. Having read about the Siege, I admire him all the more. A hellish time.

Will you be looking in to October when the remants were crossing back over the Rhine?

as a young lad of 8 I walked there mid 70's along the landing spots(Ginkelse Hei/heather)..i sensed the importance of this place imagined the landing troops..impressive!

So excited!

Fascinating. Keep it up!

Loving this series fellas. Nicely said James - once you get to know a character ...

Great series, can't wait! I'm going to go watch 'A Bridge Too Far' to pass the time

By far the most imformative YT channel about Ww2 and the British forces

Why?....why weren't you two guys working together years ago?! Fabulous stuff!

Loving this series guys great work!

Superb series!

I have driven over that Bridge more than once, it is indeed quite a large structure.

I visited in September 2024 it was absolutely amazing to walk the grounds there you can truly feel it up the stairs there are still bullet holes.

I have to disagree with your map diagram. In everything I have ever studied and watched the attack on the guns came from the side along the ditch line and not from the back, as in the other diagrams there are German mg 42's set up to the rear of the guns. No attack came across open ground Easy used the ditch line and when the Germans fled the guns and ran across the field they were cut down by the Americans firing from the German trenches. And while there may have been "only four" guns, those guns were 105's firing on Utah beach killing soldiers and Easy cleared them in order along the ditch line. Where you have the arrows of attack from the back there 2-MG-42's. The entire attack followed your arrow along the culvert/ditch. The tree Lipton was in was along the same hedgerow beside your arrow as that arrow is pointing to the location of gun #1set askew from the others.

Poor AL Murray canny finish a sentence without tother fella butting in😤 Infuriating to listen to

when i was a kid in the 80's us kids all usedd to play on the tank out side the dday meusem , grandad would tell us to take cover and we'd all jump off . only later did i learn about crocadiles and the flames . we also used to pretend to shoot down nazi bombers with the aa gun they kept out side .