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Table of contents

• About this book
• Introduction
• Part 1: Puck to the rescue
  (1876-1900)
  • 1. Chasing the Army
  • 2. Telegrams and Anger
  • 3. How It All Started
  • 4. Earning a Living
  • 5. Cocoa with Baden-Powell
• Part 2: Haughty Young Gent
  (1901-4)
  • 6. The end of an age
  • 7. “The Pilot”
  • 8. “The Daily Mail”
  • 9.”The Outlook”
• Part 3: Top of the tree
  (1905-8)
  • 10. The Sands of Pleasure
  • 11. Motors and motormen
  • 12. Christopher Columbus
  • 13. Bits and pieces
  • 14. “When the Tide Turns”
  • 17. “The Saturday Review”
• Part 4: Sophisticate of letters
  (1908-14)
  • 15. A publisher’s problems
  • 16. In search of inspiration
  • 18. Garvin again
  • 19. “Titanic”
  • 20. The end of partnership
• Part 5: Admiralty spy
  (1914-19)
  • 21. Running a hospital
  • 22. Fisher and Beatty
  • 23. Breaking into the Navy
  • 24. Buggins’s turn
  • 25. FY’s private train
  • 26. Quarrels in high places
  • 27. The Western front
  • 28. Spying in Spain
  • 29. Vera
  • 30. The end of the war
• Part 6: Editor
  (1919-24)
  • 31. Attacking the Admiralty
  • 32. Back to the “Saturday”
  • 33. Ectoplasm or delusion?
  • 34. Running a weekly
  • 35. “The New York Times”
• Part 7: Making airwaves
  (1924-30)
  • 36. Reith and “Radio Times”
  • 37. The Jutland controversy
  • 38. Music and broadcasting
  • 39. Divorce and murder
  • 40. Bacon, eggs and FY
  • 41. Pioneering at the BBC
  • 42. Bethlehem
• Part 8: Fading Light
  • 43. Life at St Ives
  • 44. Making more waves
  • 45. No fear of flying
  • 46. Frank Baker
  • 47. Memories and mortality
  • 48. Campden Grove
  • 49. Last days in Cornwall
  • 50. Television and death
• Epilogue
  • Last things

Part 5: Admiralty spy
(1914-19)