Investigative reporting which possesses the resonance of a social history and the drama of a good mystery. Fox presents a well researched, lucidly written last word on the notorious case of the 1941 murder of the Earl of Erroll, found shot through the head in his car just outside Nairobi.

Few people know that Ypres, center of First World War remembrance, was once home to a thriving British community that played a heroic role in the Second World War. This expatriate outpost grew around the British ex-servicemen who cared for the war memorials and cemeteries of Flanders Fields. Many married local women and their children grew up multi-lingual, but attended their own school and were intensely proud to be British. When Germany invaded in 1940 the community was threatenedsome children managed to escape, while others were not so lucky. Armed with their linguistic skills and local...