Guitar player. But, rob, the show is yours. Thank you, jeremy. Now the whole world. Im happy. Its great to be with john and neil barr, two really outstanding scholars on the history of great battles in World War ii, as well as some other things. The theme for this get together, this final session, as jeremy says, weve been rocking in the free world now for two straight days and its time to bring the conference to a close. We wanted to go out with a bang and we thought a good way to end would be with this concept that is so beloved of military historians called Turning Points. Now, before i introduce the two principle speakers, let me say i have experience in this field as well. A few years ago, i wrote a book which is about the battle of stalingrad and you dont need to know a whole lot of World War ii to know that many people consider stalingrad to be the Turning Point of the war. Im not sure im one of those people. Im dubious of the concept of Turning Point and i wrote the book very c
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