Table of Contents

Introduction; 1 Christmas Day 1944; 2 Childhood, Boyhood and Youth; 3 Oh I Shall Buy a Sailboat; 4 The Good Ship Landfall; 5 Going to War; 6 Into Battle; 7 Hitting Back; 8 Operation Locksmith; 9 Points of No Return; 10 Living Not Long Enough: A Postscript; Appendix: Mike Cumberlege and his Poetry; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; Endnotes; Index.

About the Author

Robin Knight has written for a living all his career. He is a graduate of Dublin and Stanford universities and was a foreign correspondent for an American news magazine for 28 years based in London, Moscow, Johannesburg, Rome and Washington DC. From 1997-2003 he was Editorial Writer at BP plc. Since then he has owned and run Knightwrite Ltd. He is the author of six books, most recently `Pangbourne College-Spirit in Changing Times' published by Profile Books in 2016 ahead of the school's centenary.