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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of figures and tables
Preface and style notes
1 Creation
A remarkable thing
Family matters
2 Hell and heaven
The happiest days
Deported
Away, from school and home
3 End of a world
The home front
Private’s progress
4 Service
Training days
On the march
For you, Tommy…
5 The most important moment
Going to Oxford
Talk to her
6 Oxford to London, via Scotland
To Scotland
What can Peter do?
7 Curiosity pays
Falling into place
Instant impact
8 Life and chess
Life support
Chess men
9 Clearing the fog
Trees and lists
Threads
10 As easy as 2-4-6
Second strand
Dissent
11 Hits of the sixties
Cards on the table
Making moves
12 Moving on
Team work
Moves and losses
13 Fruits of the field
Momentum
On reflection
Advancing characters
14 Working with the problem
A sense of reality
Matching ties
15 Two minds
Setting out
Two processes
16 Reading and writing
Read the obscure
Thinking and writing
17 New problems
Thinking and reading
What is this thing called Thog?
18 Turning tides
The times
Let down
Carry on
19 The final chapter
Second time around
Coming of age
A Festsprache?
Blowing in the wind
A wish
His last bow
Afterword
Appendix 1 Wason’s family tree: Paternal line
Appendix 2 Wason’s family tree: Maternal line
Appendix 3 Wason’s Publications: Chronological list
Notes and sources
Subject Index
Name Index
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