ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 



The author and publishers wish to thank the following for permission to use copyright material: 

 Major J. L. S. Andrews, The King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery, London N. W. 8, plate 34; 

 Australian News Bureau, Australia House, London W. C. 2, plates 8, 9 and 10; The Birmingham Post, 

 plate 22; The British Broadcasting Corporation, plate 86; British Overseas Airways Corporation, 

 plates 46 and 47; The Canadian Pacific Railway Company, plates 58, 59, 60, 70 and 77; The Central 

 Office of Information, plates 14, 30, 31, 49, 62, 67 and 89; The Cheltenham Chronicle, plate 17; 

 Desmond Donnelly, Esq., plate 74; The Finnish Tourist Association, plates 26, 27 and 68; The 

 French Embassy, plates 21, 50 and 88; Photo George, Arles-en-Provence, plates 80, 81 and 82; 

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 Icelandic Ministry for Foreign Affairs, plates 5 6, 5 7 and 6 5 ; Monsieur Albert E. Lamorisse, plate 5 5 ; 

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 plates 3, 1 5 and 71; The National Film Archive, plate 85; The Rank Film Organization, plates 79, 83 

 and 84; The Royal Belgian Society, plate 51; The Royal Danish Embassy, plates 19, 20, 48 and 54; 

 The Royal National Lifeboat Institution, plate 28; The Scotsman, plate 23 ; The Director of Information, 

 South Africa House, plate 61; ^o!^?V/A/'f»'j, plates 11, 16,43, 44 and 52; TXf T/ww, plates 39,40,41 

 and 42; United States Information Service, plates 12, 13, 24, 25, 69, 75, 76 and 78; The Western 

 Times, plates 18, 36, 37 and 38; The Zoological Society of London, plates i, 72 and 73. 



Thanks are also due to the following for permission to make certain quotations in the text: The 

 Hon. V. SackviUe-West, author of 'The Land'; Mr Maurice Hindus and Messrs William Collins, 

 author and publishers respectively of 'The Cossacks'; Messrs Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, pub- 

 lishers of 'The English Heritage' series; the Society of Authors as the Literary Representative of the 

 Trustees of the Estate of the late A. E. Housman, and Messrs Jonathan Cape Ltd, pubhshersof 

 A. E. Housman's 'Collected Poems'. 



