The war must be won or lost in Europe.

Yes; but if the East blazes up, our effort will be distracted from Europe and the great _coup_ may fail.
The stakes are no less than victory and defeat, Hannay.' I got out of my chair and walked to the window.

It was a difficult moment in my life.

I was happy in my soldiering; above all, happy in the company of my brother officers.

I was asked to go off into the enemy's lands on a quest for which I believed I was manifestly unfitted--a business of lonely days and nights, of nerve-racking strain, of deadly peril shrouding me like a garment.