ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I wish to gratefully acknowledge a number of individuals and organisations.

My thanks to my lawyer and friend, Mr James Macdonald, for his encouragement to write this book; my friend, Mrs Joan McCreed, for her help and assistance with getting the book published; my publisher, Mr Ray Coffey, for his help and guidance.

My sincere thanks also to all my friends who have, over the many years, given me help and encouragement when, at times, the pain of recalling the past became too much.

My gratitude is also due to the BBC for kindly allowing me to use the transcript of my April 1945 interviews with Patrick Gordon-Walker; and to the Imperial British War Museum, Documentation and Archives Section, for the use of photographs.