“Another key publication from The Clapton Press” — Paul Preston

Cover design by Ivana Nohel

This edition also includes an appendix with a short biography of the author, including new information on his predilection for dangerous places: Danzig after the Germans went in; Rome as Mussolini declared for Hitler; Athens as Metaxas breathed his last; Cairo during WW2, up to his untimely death in Milano in 1951 following his report on the defection of Professor Bruno Pontecorvo, the Italian nuclear physicist, to Moscow . . .