>> from john keagan?> yes. >> well, i wrote a book about something very specific which was the outbreak of the war. john wrote a book, history of world war i. but -- but catastrophe, my book, what i tried to do is look at the manner in which the war, how the war started and what the first battles were like because there's a phrase in churchill he said no period of the war match it is extraordinary excitement and the extraordinary sensations of those first days and weeks and i thought this was so and i quite often get people saying, i've written a book of 1914 and i am going to write about 1915, no, i shared all i have to offer about 1914. for instance. a lot of history in the past was totally nationalistic whether written by americans or british or whatever. i think that nowadays we all try to get away from that and try to see things in more and global terms and, for instance, i report to think out of the british army and sort of major factor and yet the british army, fought at the beginning of the war if