Watching War Films with My Dad

Al Murray, the comedian best known as the Pub Landlord, looks back on his childhood and the fascination with history that took hold of him early. Anyone who has sat through a war film with someone who points out the wrong aircraft or the wrong tank will recognise the habit. Al grew up in the 1970s, and with his father's encouragement he became absorbed in the Second World War. Rather than spending Saturdays at football matches, the two of them visited battlefields. Part memoir and part lifelong passion, the book finds Al sharing what he knows best and offering history lessons school never gave him.