Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat (71 page)

The faults of this book are all mine, but a number of indulgent friends and colleagues vetted particular chapters and passages for me. Occasionally I was ungrateful enough to disregard their advice, but still I owe my heartfelt thanks to Colonel A. J. Barker, Professor C. J. Beckett, Mr David Dilks, General Anthony Farrar-Hockley, Sir Laurence Grafftey-Smith, Mr Kenneth Griffiths, Mrs Elspeth Huxley, Professor Robert Rhodes James, Mr Alistair Lamb, Mr Philip Mason, Miss Elizabeth Monroe and Sir Ronald Wingate. Finally Mr Donald Simpson, librarian of the Royal Commonwealth Society, drew upon his unrivalled knowledge of the Empire as a whole and most generously read the whole book in proof.

Mr Denys Baker drew all the maps; my friend and agent Julian Bach arranged nearly all the necessary journeys; the editors of
The
Times
and
Encounter
(London),
Horizon
and
Rolling
Stone
(New York) helped me with relevant commissions; for their loving and amused encouragement throughout this long endeavour I am indebted, now as always, to my family—Elizabeth, Mark, Henry, Twm and Susan Morris.