Dedication

Title Page || 1: From a Front-line Cellar to the Hotel Crillon

To my four indulgent sons

STEPHEN AND PHILIP, RICHARD AND DUDLEY

In gratitude and with the proud confidence that they and their contemporaries will cope more successfully with the problems of a war-wrecked world than did the generation that now passes from the troubled scene.

I SHALL BE content if those shall pronounce my history useful who desire to give a view of events as they really did happen and as they are very likely in accordance with human nature to repeat themselves at some future time—if not exactly the same yet very similar.

Thucydides

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