Having cracked the Germans' Enigma traffic, the Allies were able to devastate Rommel's supply lines across the Mediterranean.

He felt elated. Till now he had been living too much in the past, he decided. Time to get my eye in again.

Snuggle's is housed in what was once a mid-sixties estate pub, the perfect place to wind down a life as a nearly man. Suburban mediocrity writ large.

When I tripped so close to the edge of the cliff, I felt chills across my whole body.