Here’s the result of last month’s subscribers’ competition. Congratulations to Mr Barnetson from Moray who correctly identified the name of the leader of the British delegation to Moscow in the summer of 1939 as Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Erne-Erle-Drax.
A signed paperback copy of Richard Overy’s ‘The Road to War’ will shortly be winging its way towards him.
Not many people got the right answer last month, and this month’s question is, I think, the hardest yet. But the prize is worth the effort. Ian Kershaw’s one volume biography of Hitler – signed by Sir Ian himself.