From Dunkirk to Barbarossa, the war on China to Stalingrad, bestselling author James Holland and award-winning comedian Al Murray will capture readers with the most up to date and pioneering academic research on a host of WWII-related topics.
Their hugely successful podcast of the same name delves into forgotten, hidden and little explained aspects of the war. The podcast has blown the subject wide open and introduced far more complex and detailed ways of looking at this truly global conflict.
WE HAVE WAYS OF MAKING YOU TALK is the first book to tie-in with the podcast and will follow a number of the podcast's most successful series.
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 The Savage Storm and Cassino '44, he is also the author of ten 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.
Al Murray's alter ego, The Pub Landlord, is one of the most recognizable and successful comic creations of the past twenty years, and Murray, who has won numerous awards and accolades, continues to fill arenas and theatres around the world. He is also the author of many successful books including Watching War Films with My Dad and Command, a sharply entertaining analysis of the key allied military leaders in the Second World War.
Goalhanger is the UK's largest independent podcast producer and the biggest outside the US - creating chart-topping, story-first shows across history, politics, sport, business, entertainment, culture, and audio drama.
Goalhanger's shows include The Rest Is History, The Rest Is Politics, Empire, The Rest Is Entertainment, The Rest Is Politics: US, Leading, The Rest Is Money, Journey Through Time, The Rest Is Football, Sherlock & Co., The Rest Is Classified, The Rest Is Football: Daly Brightness, and We Have Ways of Making You Talk.
Goalhanger reach tens of millions each month across long-form audio, video, and live events - with over 400 million downloads in 2024, and more than 1 billion lifetime streams.
Al Murray is one of the most successful comics in the UK with his alter-ego
The Pub Landlord and has had four previous bestselling books,
The Pub Landlord's Book of British Common Sense, The Pub Landlord Says Think Yourself British, Great British Pub Quiz Book and
Watching War Films with my Dad. One of the most popular live comedy acts in the country, Al has sold out arenas nationwide, including London's O2 Arena. He has earned numerous awards and accolades, such as the British Comedy Award for his ITV1 series
Al Murray's Happy Hour, the Perrier Award and two Olivier Award nominations.
One of WWII's finest historians,
James Holland is the author of
The Savage Storm,
Brothers in Arms,
Sicily '43,
Normandy '44,
Big Week, T
he Rise of Germany and more. He has written and presented the BAFTA shortlisted documentaries Battle of Britain and Dam Busters for the BBC, and his WWII podcast,
We Have Ways of Making You Talk, now has millions of listeners.
