coloured frontispiece, 33 b/w. plates; illustrated end-papers in red and blue (The two 24 hour clocks, Northern & Southern hemispheres, in the court room at Electra House); The first published record of the ten thousand men and women working in more than seventy countries and on the high seas who maintained the life-lines of British and Commonwealth communications throughout World War TwoI. The 355,000-mile global system was based on the Cable & Wireless network; Wilshaw was Chairman during six years of conflict.