Gray Robert Brown
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I think he's been re-evaluated since Agatha Christie died as a sort of imperial villain.
But also as a war hero, it just felt like that was in dialogue with who John Gabriel is.
Yes.
Reading this book.
Complex.
Yeah.
And Churchill, of course, is directly name checked and people do discuss him.
He's attributed to, quote, winning the war for us.
Yeah.
Which is, you know, kind of what you hear patriots even today kind of saying now.
But then Hugh says he ought to sit back and write his history of the war.
He's one of the best writers of our times.
And have a nice rest while Labour mismanages the peace.
So it's interesting, Churchill Algy publishes the first volume of his World War II history, which he does then write as Hugh Norries is anticipating in the book.
He publishes it the year after when the book is set.
But obviously, Westmacott knows that writing in 1948.
Well, yeah.
How do you say it?
It's like on the seafront basically in Turkey.
It's lovely.