Based on the experiences of General Sir Leslie Hollis, KCB, KBE, this contains some of his impressions gained during the nine years from 1936 to 1945. Recollections of meetings held underground in the Cabinet War Rooms and of the people at those meetings - Churchill, Beaverbrook, General Ismay, General Sir Alan Brooke, General Montgomery, Roosevelt, to name just six - are served up to us here. The tensions, the personalities and the differences of policy and opinion make for fascinating reading.