Acknowledgements

I would like to give special thanks to James Wilson-MacDonald, Deborah Eastwood, John McMaster, Jeremy Fairbank, and Parminder J Singh who worked unceasingly with me to bring this book to fruition. Their work was ‘Above and Beyond the Call of Duty’ and made the good parts of this book very good. I must take responsibility for the rest!

Thanks also to the team at Oxford University Press - Mandy Hill, Helen Liepman, Anna Winstanley, and Marionne Cronin, as well as to Gayathri Bellan for managing the project with courtesy and patience.

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