I am grateful to Miss A. Page, of the Oxford City Surveyor’s department, who kindly supplied me with the map of old St Ebbe’s which appears on page 219.
I am much indebted to Geoffrey Powell, formerly of Airborne Forces and author of The Devil’s Birthday: The Bridges to Arnhem, for checking the accuracy of the chapters about Operation ‘Market Garden’ and making valuable comments: and also for kindly giving consent for the reproduction of the map of the plan for Operation ‘Market Garden’ on page 338.
I am most grateful to Richard and Hailz-Emily Osborne, of Bradfield, who gave invaluable help over the Bradfield photographs, and to Jimmy Stow, who was equally helpful over Horris Hill.
I thank warmly my secretary, Mrs Elizabeth Aydon, who not only typed the book most accurately and conscientiously, but also picked up for me those slips and inconsistencies to which most, if not all, authors are prone.