I wish to thank the Cambridge University Press for giving me the following permissions. Extracts from the Authorized Version of the Bible (The King James Bible), the rights in which are vested in the Crown, are reproduced by permission of the Crown’s Patentee, Cambridge University Press.

Extracts from the Book of Common Prayer, the rights of which are vested in the Crown, are reproduced by permission of the Crown’s Patentee, Cambridge University Press.

Extracts from the New English Bible © Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press 1961, 1970, by permission of the Cambridge University Press.

I also wish to thank Viscount Montgomery of Alamein for his kind permission to quote from Field Marshall Montgomery’s personal message to the officers and men of the Eighth Army before the Battle of Alamein began. The copyrigt in which is vested in Viscount Montgomery.