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Source ISBN: 9780008311209
Ebook Edition © April 2020 ISBN: 9780008311223
Version: 2020-03-24
Contents
1 Cover
2 Title Page
3 Copyright
4 Contents
5 Foreword by Oswyn Murray
6 Historical Introduction by David Crane
7 1 Drumnadrochit, summer 1939
8 September 1939–April 1940
9 2 ‘No time to sit on brood’
10 May–September 1940
11 3 My Young Fellow
12 September–December 1940
13 4 Blitz
14 January–March 1941
15 5 Intentions
16 March–September 1941
17 6 A Rill Civil Servant
18 September–December 1941
19 7 Your Intended
20 January–May 1942
21 8 Separation
22 May–December 1942
23 9 Limbo
24 January 1943–March 1944
25 10 The Long Wait
26 April 1944–March 1946
27 11 Twin Compasses
28 Postscript
29 Dramatis Personae
30 Picture Section
31 About the Author
32 About the Publisher
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