This ebook is transcribed from a 1926 edition published by Chatto
& Windus, available from Google Books
[https://books.google.com/books?id=osihAqjxClEC]. Every
attempt has been made to retain original spelling and punctuation,
even when internally inconsistent. The only changes that have
been made are to the following passages:
_‘military people, you know, and well connected.”’_
Added missing opening quote.
_‘Four days. three days . . . two days . . .’_
Added missing elipses before “three.”
_it is a sort of blurr_
Changed to “blur.”
_I could not, in the circumtances_
Changed to “circumstances.”
_not his proto-Hitite Script_
Changed to “Hittite.”
Corrected several misspellings of “Yearsly” (from _Yearsley_), “Pincent”
(from _Pinsent_), and “Howsteads” (from _Howsteds_).
New original cover art included with this ebook is granted to the
public domain. It is a composite of the title page text and clothbound
cover.
The translation of the opening epigraph—lines 146-149 of Book
VI of Homer’s _Iliad_—is sourced from the Alexander Pope translation,
available from Internet Archive
[https://archive.org/details/iliadofhomertran00homeuoft].