This week Phil discusses how the British royals handled Donald Trump’s recent visit and gets excited about his upcoming trip to Australia. 

Then historian Steve Tibble makes his second appearance on the podcast to talk about hi new book Assassins and Templars - a rip-roaring account of intrigue, conspiracy and murder in the bloody age of the Crusades. Or - as Phil puts it - history as if told by Quentin Tarantino. 

You can buy Steve’s book here in our own bookshop...

https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/assassins-and-templars-a-battle-in-myth-and-blood-steve-tibble/436d936bb5456b27?ean=9780300282122&next=t&aid=12054

Several Australia listeners have asked for a full list of where Phil is speaking there in October. And so here are some opportunities to see him and say ‘G’Day’.

Melbourne with Prof Clare Wright 10 October https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1424756

Day Long conference in Melbourne 11 October https://historyguild.org/fighting-to-the-finish-australia-in-1945-strategy-victory-and-legacy-conference-melbourne-book-now/

Sydney with Chris Masters 12 October https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/author-talk-1945-the-reckoning-phil-craig-tickets-1248763849289

Sydney with Michaela Kalowski 12 October https://events.humanitix.com/author-talk-and-book-launch-phil-craig-1945-the-reckoning

Canberra with Christine Helliwell 15 October https://www.awm.gov.au/the-end-of-the-second-world-war

There's also information and extracts from Phil's new book here...

https://sites.google.com/view/1945thereckoning/home

You can order his book now on Amazon UK and Amazon Australia, India and NZ - and it is available all around the world as an e-book and an audio book...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/1945-Reckoning-Empire-Struggle-World/dp/139971449X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=#

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