The War Hound and The World

For Doctor A. C. Papadakis,

Valerie, Amanda, Charles Plan and all those others who, with Jill, helped create the circumstances that led to the writing of this book

ISBN: 0-67I-60409-0

Being the true testimony of the Graf Ulrich von Bek, lately Commander of Infantry, written down in the Year of Our Lord 2680 by Brother Olivier of the Monastery at Renschel during the months of May and June as the said nobleman lay upon his sickbed.

(This manuscript had, until now, remained sealed within the wall of the monastery's crypt. It came to light during work being carried out to restore the structure, which had sustained considerable damage during the Second World War. It came into the hands of the present editor via family sources and appears here for the first time in a modern translation. Almost all the initial translating work was that of Prinz Lob-Kowitz; this English text is largely the work of Michael Moorcock.)