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I am your host, Stephen Sikhevich.

My next guest is Brit Putar, and we will be discussing his book Into the Reich, The Red Army's Advance to the Odor in 1945, published by Osprey Publishing in 2025.

Brit Kutar is an established expert on the Eastern Front in 20th century military history, and his previous books include the critically acclaimed two-volume series On the Siege of Leningrad, To Besiege a City, published by Osprey in 2023 and previously featured on the New Books Network, and Hero City, also published by Osprey in 2024.

He now lives in France.

Tell us a little bit about that.

Yeah, this was published by Osprey Books, and it's a sort of combat history of...

It's a combat history of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 in the Battle of Britain and looking at all the various aspects of that aircraft in the battle and including a number of misunderstood factors, if you like, or even factors that had not necessarily been appreciated before.

I mean, one of the things that I found quite interesting was that when I looked at the numbers of German pilots who had been shot down and taken prisoner over the UK during the Battle of Britain.

It just goes on and on and on of what the car is capable of.

And there is a very good book out there about Lewis Colton from Osprey Publications.

And it's called the Adcox book.

And if you can get all of that, it goes through everything from the design through to the manufacturing, through to the aerodynamics, the brakes.

He has written more than 100 articles on various aspects of ancient and medieval military history as well as other historical topics from all periods, ranging from the history of opera to the runic alphabet to and recipients of the Victoria Cross.

He is the author of Macedonian Phalangite versus Persian Warrior, Athenian Hoplite versus Spartan Hoplite, and Leuctra 371 BC, all from Osprey Publishing.

He is, of course, a regular writer on here, and a regular on the Ancient Warfare podcast.

The Persian king who invaded Greece in 480 BC is remembered for his defeat at the Battle of Salamis, but he was much more than that.