Thank you. I have read Leckie's works on Guadalcanal and Okinawa. He's a great military historian.

As to the old Tub, I need to go to Detroit sometime in the New Year and am looking forward to treating you to some Old Tub so that we can have a 'chin wag'. That is a British expression for a chat and does not have any salacious connotations.

And by the way, Lord Haig's grandson, James Howard-Johnstone was one of my tutors at Oxford and as I said, even he thought that his grandfather was incompetent.