"Geoffrey Cox witnessed, as a war correspondent, as a foreign correspondent, the seizure of Austria by Germany in the Anschluss. He was in prague throughout the Munich crisis, and saw Hitler drive triumphantly into the Sudeten territories ceded to him at Munich. He reported the outbreak of war from Paris, the phoney war from France, Belgium and Holland, and the very real shooting war in the snows of the Arctic where Russia invaded Finland in the Winter War. Hew as in Brussels when the Germans attacked in May 1940, and after the fall of France escaped from Bordeaux on the last passenger ship to leave for Britain."--Book jacket.