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Tom Holland is joined in the Making History studio by , Lecturer in European History at Brunel University, and the author of "Berlin at War" .

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joins the discussion to talk about whether or not the Liberation of Paris in 1944 has become forgotten – or at least misunderstood.

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Matthew's new book is called "Eleven Days in August" and is published by Simon & Schuster

Helen Castor meets up with from the University of Southampton who has written a new book "Tales of Two Cities: Paris, London and the birth of the modern city". In it he picks up on the shared, not the conflicting histories that we might expect.

Finally, the author of "Fire and Steam", railway writer , heads for Balcombe in Sussex where the great grandfather of Making History listener John Ireland worked on the London to Brighton Railway shortly after its opening in 1841. Christian finds out that the HS2 of its day was fought over by local landowners who saw the benefits and not the environmental damage of the railway.

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John Ireland has written a book about his great grandfather which is called "Hoops and Signals"