Notes

Contents: World at war -- The First World War: -- Over by Christmas? -- The angels of Mons -- Strange meetings -- The great zeppelin campaign -- The Battle of Jutland -- The first day of the Somme -- Eye of the morning -- The quiet rebellion -- The cellar house of Pervyse -- Nightmare at Belleau Wood -- From Great War to First World War -- The Second World War: -- "As dirty a business as the world has ever seen" -- The first and final voyage of the Bismarck -- The Venlo snatch -- Death of a salesgirl -- Cracking Enigma -- The book-keeper's storage problem -- The war of the rats -- The gentleman's gentleman -- Odette's ordeal -- Stauffenberg's secret Germany -- The lost hero -- "...like running through rain and not getting wet" -- The destroyer of worlds -- From technicolor to black and white