G.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

In this book there are a few unacknowledged quotations in the text:

1. ‘One minute in the life of the world is going by. Paint it as it is.’ is a quotation from Cézanne. Source unknown.

2. paragraph which begins ‘He was poorly equipped…’ from ‘Personal Reminiscence of Garibaldi and the Garibaldini’ by the Rev. H.R. Haweis. Quoted by G.M. Trevelyan in Garibaldi and the Making of Italy.

3. paragraph which begins ‘Animals do not admire each other…’ Pascal, Pensées, No. 685.

4. paragraph which begins ‘Honey may be either healthy or toxic…’ Lévi-Strauss, Mythologiques III, L’Origine des Manières de Table.

5. paragraph which begins ‘All history is contemporary history…’ R.G. Collingwood, The Idea of History.

6. paragraph which begins ‘An assault on the town hall…’ From a contemporary account. Source untraceable.

7. paragraph which begins ‘The land surface…’ Encyclopaedia Britannica, Edition 1911. Entry: British Empire.

8. paragraph which begins ‘I despise this dust of which I am compounded’, Saint Just, Discours sur les Institutions Républicaines.

9. This page and following pages: in the account of the battle of Auvers Ridge, I have drawn heavily on the research done by Alan Clark and published in his book called The Donkeys. I have also quoted sentences by him.

For the writing of this book the author acknowledges assistance from the Arts Council of Great Britain.

Other acknowledgements to friends are too deep and intensive to tabulate.