victoria gosling's before the room. welcome, giles milton, good to see you tonight. >> thank you, so nice to be here. >> hello to both of you. great to be here. >> i will let you get on with it. giles and i will dive into the conversation rather than reading something. we have so much to talk about. >> that works for me. >> wonderful. i worked with giles, it was my pleasure to read it a handful of times it was fascinating every time. it really does read as a thriller, a page turner, a wonderful book. the book is set after world war ii as the war was ending, during this time in four sectors in the book follows the leaders of those that germany was divided into and it was entertaining and shocking how many characters they were in this time. they are larger than life, felt i was watching a quentin tarantino movie. wonderful detail. i am curious if you knew this place was famous for these characters and that drew you to this subject matter or if you discovered it when doing research and ran with it. >> so many books publish

victoria gosling's before the room. welcome, giles milton, good to see you tonight. >> thank you, so nice to be here. >> hello to both of you. great to be here. >> i will let you get on with it. giles and i will dive into the conversation rather than reading something. we have so much to talk about. >> that works for me. >> wonderful. i worked with giles, it was my pleasure to read it a handful of times it was fascinating every time. it really does read as a thriller, a page turner, a wonderful book. the book is set after world war ii as the war was ending, during this time in four sectors in the book follows the leaders of those that germany was divided into and it was entertaining and shocking how many characters they were in this time. they are larger than life, felt i was watching a quentin tarantino movie. wonderful detail. i am curious if you knew this place was famous for these characters and that drew you to this subject matter or if you discovered it when doing research and ran with it. >> so many books publish