please welcome martin dugard. [applause] >> hello. good afternoon. >> avenue and tony to make sure i speak into the -- can you hear me okay? it's not g on? can you? okay. so let'she start with "taking london." i want to make sure the camera gets this. [laughing] very important. the most important thing ever. it's called "taking london: winston churchill and the fight to save civilization." some earlier reviewers found that misleading because what it is about is a lot of winston churchill but a truly focused on the battle of britain itself, the time from may 1940 through september 1940 where literally civilization hung in the balance. if you lost the battle of britain, hitler and nazi germany would have been able to invade england ande then everything wht a change. churchill probably would've either fled to canada or been in prison and executed. the king would been taken off his throne. so everything we think of the we think of england was change and solidified that month. as kevin was saying, politely, most of you probably know me fro