Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Maps

Prologue: Firstway

1 The Big One

2 A Cottage or a Castle?

3 Smoke and Mirrors

4 Brylcreem Boys

5 ‘There’s Something in the Air’

6 ‘Tragic, Criminally Tragic’

7 The Battle

8 Fighting the Night

9 Ten Million Miles of Sea

10 The Blue

11 ‘Eat, Drink and Be Merry …’

12 ‘Britain’s Best Advertisement’

13 Out of Sight

14 Black and White

15 The Hyacinths of Spring

Epilogue: Brothers and Sisters

Acknowledgements

Notes

Picture Section

Index

Also by Patrick Bishop

About the Author

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