{"id":19264,"date":"2022-11-01T13:42:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T12:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=218603"},"modified":"2022-11-01T13:56:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T12:56:08","slug":"how-the-allies-plucked-victory-from-the-jaws-of-defeat","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/how-the-allies-plucked-victory-from-the-jaws-of-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Allies plucked victory from the jaws of defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Spencer Mizen\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Tuesday, 01 November 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The Second World War saw Allied forces evolve from serial losers to a war-winning machine. Comedian and history buff Al Murray talks to Spencer Mizen about 10 commanders \u2013 from Bernard Montgomery to George Patton and Omar Bradley to Orde Wingate \u2013 whose experiences chart that transformation.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-218603-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/11\/al-murray-ba06b76.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/11\/al-murray-ba06b76.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/11\/al-murray-ba06b76.mp3<\/a><\/audio><p><strong>Al Murray is the author of <em>Command: How the Allies Learned to Win the Second World War<\/em> (Headline, 2022)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/books\/command-how-the-allies-learned-to-win-the-second-world-war\/9781472284594&quot;\"><strong>Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Command-Allies-Learned-Second-World\/dp\/1472284593\/?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\"><strong>Buy now on Amazon<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/command\/al-murray\/9781472284594&quot;\"><strong>Buy now on Waterstones\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Spencer Mizen Published: Tuesday, 01 November 2022 at 12:00 am The Second World War saw Allied forces evolve from serial losers to a war-winning machine. 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