ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks to AP Watt at United Agents LLP on behalf of the Trustees of the Estate of the late Nevil Shute Norway for permission to include the quotation from Slide Rule.

Many thanks also to my friend and mentor, Martin Corrick, for his help in putting this book together.

I am also grateful for the skills of Don Hickey (front cover) and Dennis Moore (back cover).

And finally, my apologies to the good people in towns and harbours along the South Coast of England, and in Cherbourg, France, for any inaccuracy of account due to my memory of twenty-five years ago.