Contents

Map

Prologue

 

Part One

1 The Missionary Position

2 ‘Stay away from Boars Hill’: 1919–33

3 A Class Apart: 1933–8

4 Laughter in the Dark: 1938

5 Oxford in the Age of Heroes: 1938–9

 

Part Two

6 Lessons in Gunnery: September 1939–July 1940

7 An Officer and a Gentleman: July 1940–March 1941

8 Cairo Frustrations: March–December 1941

9 Under the Libyan Dog-star: 1942

10 A Desultory Tale: January–September 1943

 

Part Three

11 Recasting the World: September 1943–January 1944

12 With the Partisans: January–June 1944

13 Conversing with the Dead: 1944–7

14 Afterlife

 

Appendix

Footnotes

Notes

Select Bibliography

Acknowledgements

 

A Note on the Author

By the Same Author