Contents

1. Title Page
2. Copyright Notice
3. Dedication
4. Epigraphs
5. Dramatis Personae
6. Introduction
7. Prologue: ‘My Whole Life Shall Be Devoted to Your Service’
8. Chapter One: ‘The Most Terrible Thing Ever Discovered’
9. Chapter Two: ‘I Never Saw a Man So Bored’
10. Chapter Three: ‘I Believe She Loves and Will Marry Him’
11. Chapter Four: ‘This Poor Battered World’
12. Chapter Five: ‘Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained’
13. Chapter Six: ‘The Old Values Have Disappeared’
14. Chapter Seven: ‘The Loneliest Man in the World’
15. Chapter Eight: ‘Don’t You Recognise an Old Friend?’
16. Chapter Nine: ‘I Felt That I Had Lost Something Very Precious’
17. Chapter Ten: ‘The Future Is a Gloomy One’
18. Chapter Eleven: ‘An Unkind Stroke of Fate’
19. Chapter Twelve: ‘Untold Injury in Every Quarter’
20. Chapter Thirteen: ‘In My Faith and Loyalty I Never More Will Falter’
21. Chapter Fourteen: ‘The Incessant Worries and Crises’
22. Chapter Fifteen: ‘It May Be That This Is the End’
23. Chapter Sixteen: ‘And They Lived Happily Ever After’
24. Chapter Seventeen: ‘The Hopes of the Future’
25. Chapter Eighteen: ‘God Save the Queen’
26. Photographs
27. Acknowledgements
28. Bibliography
29. Notes
30. Illustration Credits
31. Index
32. Also by Alexander Larman
33. About the Author
34. Copyright