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Nevil Shute
Most Secret
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4066338088550
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Chapter 1
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So much happened in the two years that I spent at the Admiralty, I had a finger in so many pies, that I have found it difficult to say exactly when it was that this thing began. From my engagement diary it seems to have been about the middle of July in 1941, and I should say that it began with a telephone call from McNeil.
I reached out for the receiver. I remember that it was a very hot day and I was flooded out with work. There was dust all over my desk because I had the window open, and outside the bricklayers were repairing what the Luftwaffe had done to us. I said irritably: "Six nine two."
"Is that Commander Martin?"
"Speaking," I said shortly.
"This is Brigadier McNeil. I am speaking from one hundred and sixty-four Pall Mall."
"Oh, yes, sir?" I replied. The address meant nothing to me, and I wondered sourly why the Army could not say in short time who they were and what they wanted.