Ignorance and Bliss

This is a story of events as seen and experienced by a private individual during the greater part of the twentieth century. Ground covered: a child in Essex during WWI; convent school in France; encounters with a parent disabled in the war; universities Sorbonne Oxford; love story; personal successes; WWII; private war effort in Berlin for the duration; Control Commission; the postwar bulge; a diplomatic post; change over to an anonymous commitment; Africa 1960-61 the Ethiopian attempted coup d'état; Ghana Sudan; Central Europe Prague 20 August 1968; Soviet Union; the Helsinki Agreement CSCE; Belgrade Madrid Stockholm. The manuscript closes in the last decade of the twentieth century. It could the author wrote have gone on for further chapters if found too short.