He tried to back away, but she was on him like a vixen on heat, pushing him back onto the bed, rubbing her body against him, opening her legs, reaching for him, her mouth coming down hard on his and her tongue lancing into his mouth. He struggled for a moment, then thought, ‘Well, I’d better lie back and think of England.’

Widebodied jets, like the 747, the DC-10, and the L-1011, introduced the possibility of low-cost air travel.

The eager American warriors were getting ahead of themselves. The Allies had neither the troops nor the landing craft needed to carry out Operation Sledgehammer or Roundup or the other code-named plans.

Now that we were so close on Kilimanjaro, summit fever was taking me again.