it was no use trying to rush this when yale university pressed rightly wanted to get copies of this at the front of of you know, barnes and noble bookstores and that was impossible so we held on and that gave me the chance to go back to the manuscript and go through its sentence by sentence and try to trim it down. it's a very large narrative in any case and to try to get official sufficient and wonderful number of statistical. tables and data and the maps by mapmaker down in maryland mr. wilson all put into this complicated book. i was trying to do if you like. what historians might call a broad delian approach to the naval history of the second world war brodell and his magnificent books on the mediterranean in the age of philip ii said there was an underlying or basic level of causation geography the climate and everything else. there was a middle level of technical technical and technological trading change which affected things. and there's a top level the history of events lee strava anymore, which was that of you know battle of lepanto or the spanish armada. could you try and do broad dell in the mid 20th century? i was going to ha