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  CHAPTER 178 - LE BOUDIN

  1501 hrs, Friday, 1st November 1946, Karup Air Base, Denmark.

  1509 hrs, Friday, 1st November 1946, beside Route 106, southeast of Prosecnice, Czechoslovakia.

  0237 hrs, Saturday, 2nd November 1946, a field, two kilometres southeast of Baltrušaičiai, Lithuania.

  1417 hrs, Sunday, 3rd November 1946, Urakami First Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan.

  1200 hrs, Monday, 4th November 1946, Former SS-Artillerieschule Beneschau, Beneschau, Czechoslovakia.

  1050 hrs, Tuesday, 5th November 1946, Headquarters of Camerone Division, Kuttenberg, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia.

  Chapter 179 - THE REUNION

  1148 hrs, Thursday, 7th November 1946. Headquarters of Camerone Division, Kuttenberg, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia.

  1150 hrs, Sunday, 10th November 1946, office of the Commander [Special Projects], Moscow Military District Mechanised Units Directorate, Arbat District. Moscow, USSR.

  1533 hrs, Thursday, 14th November 1946, Vnukovo Airfield, Moscow, USSR.

  0900 hrs, Monday, 18th November 1946, the Georgievsky Hall, Grand Kremlin Palace, Moscow.

  0901 hrs, Wednesday, 20th November 1946, twelve nautical miles due south of Sumba Point, Suðuroy, Faroe Islands.

  1102 hrs, Friday, 22nd November 1946, Downing Street, England.

  Chapter 180 - THE SCHEMERS

  1107 hrs, Saturday, 30th November 1946, 2nd Grenadier Guards Maintenance Section, Kolberg, Poland.

  1311 hrs, Sunday, 1st December 1946, Pardubice, Czechoslovakia.

  1312 hrs, Sunday, 1st December 1946, Dai Ichi Life Insurance Building, Tokyo, Japan.

  1902 hrs, Monday, 2nd December 1946, Vinogradar Young Communists Sailing Club, Black Sea, USSR.

  0839 hrs, Wednesday, 4th December 1946, NATO Forces in Europe Headquarters, Frankfurt, Germany.

  1058 hrs, Friday, 6th December 1946, the Kremlin, Moscow, USSR.

  1300 hrs, Friday, 6th December 1946, Lieutenant General Kaganovich’s office, the Kremlin, Moscow, USSR.

  2120 hrs, Friday, 6th December 1946, Lieutenant General Kaganovich’s Dacha, Moscow, USSR.

  1000 hrs, Monday, 9th December 1946, office of General Strong, NATO Headquarters, Frankfurt, Germany.

  Chapter 181 - THE ABOMINATION

  1439 hrs, Friday, 20th December 1946, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland.

  0820 hrs, Tuesday, 24th December 1946, Orzesche, Poland.

  1454 hrs, Tuesday, 24th December 1946, Villa Speer, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg, Heidelberg, Germany.

  1535 hrs, Wednesday, 25th December 1946, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland.

  Chapter 182 - THE ELIMINATIONS

  1107 hrs, Monday 30th December 1946, Marktplatz, Oberursel, Germany.

  January 1947.

  0912 hrs, Thursday, 2nd January 1947, Dai Ichi Life Insurance Building, Tokyo, Japan.

  1054 hrs, Saturday, 4th January 1947, the Apostles Simon and Jude Thaddaeus Church, Skawina, Poland.

  1155 hrs, Saturday, 4th January 1947, Pałacyk Sokół [Falcon Palace], Park Miejski, Skawina, Poland.

  1602 hrs, Sunday, 5th January 1947, Pałacyk Sokół [Falcon Palace], Park Miejski, Skawina, Poland.

  1631 hrs, Sunday, 5th January 1947, Szczęście Farm, Ul. Ɫanowa, Skawina, Poland.

  Chapter 183 - THE TEST

  1202 hrs, Monday, 6th January 1947, the Black Sea, 80 kilometres southwest of Sochi, USSR.

  Chapter 184 - THE PROVOCATION

  1357 hrs, Thursday, 9th January 1947, Justizzentrum, temporary government building #3, Magdeburg, Germany.

  1234 hrs, Saturday, 11th January 1947, over the demarcation line, Maków Mazowiecki, Poland.

  1501 hrs, Saturday, 11th January 1947, Camp Vár conference facility, Lungsnäs, Sweden.

  2013 hrs, Saturday, 11th January 1947, the Kremlin, Moscow, USSR.

  1357 hrs, Sunday, 12th January 1947, Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse, temporary government building #1, Magdeburg, Germany.

  Chapter 185 - THE GERMANS?

  1157 hrs, Wednesday, 15th January 1947, Army Training Ground, south of Allentsteig, Austria.

  1103 hrs, Saturday, 18th January 1947, the Viennese enclave, Austria.

  0942 hrs, Monday, 20th January 1947, Dai Ichi Life Insurance Building, Tokyo, Japan.

  1021 hrs, Monday, 20th January 1947, NATO Headquarters, Frankfurt, Germany.

  1313 hrs, Wednesday, 22nd January 1947, Dankerode, Germany.

  1602 hrs, Wednesday, 22nd January 1947, NATO Headquarters, Frankfurt, Germany.

  1312 hrs, Sunday, 26th January 1947, the Black Sea, 82 kilometres southwest of Sochi, USSR.

  CHAPTER 186 - THE DRUMS

  February 1947

  1651 hrs, Saturday, 1st February 1947, Dankerode, Germany.

  1801 hrs, Monday, 3rd February 1947, Office of the Deputy Commander of Armoured Forces Training, Moscow Military District. Moscow, USSR.

  1329 hrs, Wednesday, 5th February 1947, Raudonė, Lithuania.

  2259 hrs, Wednesday, 5th February 1947, the Neman River, four hundred metres south of Pupkaimis, Lithuania.

  0900 hrs, Friday, 7th February 1947, Semipalatinsk-21, Kazakh SSR

  1759 hrs, Sunday, 9th February 1947, the Neman River, four kilometres west of Pupkaimis, Lithuania.

  CHAPTER 187 - THE BITCH

  1515 hrs, Tuesday 11th February 1947, Chihkiang Air Force Base, China.

  0803 hrs, Monday, 17th February 1947, NATO headquarters, Frankfurt, Germany.

  1353 hrs, Monday, 17th February 1947, Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse, temporary government building #1, Magdeburg, Germany.

  1847 hrs, Tuesday, 18th February 1947, 733 15th St NW, Washington DC, USA.

  1353 hrs, Thursday, 20th February 1947, the Kremlin, Moscow, USSR.

  2357 hrs, Friday, 28th February 1947, Europe.

  CHAPTER 188 - THE RUMBLES

  March 1947, Europe

  0300 hrs, Saturday, 1st March 1947, Vinogradar Young Communists Sailing Club, Black Sea, USSR.

  0201 hrs, Sunday, 2nd March 1947, the Baltic Sea, thirty kilometres due south of Rønne, Bornholm.

  0202 hrs, Sunday, 2nd March 1947, the Baltic Sea, thirty kilometres due south of Rønne, Bornholm.

  1122 hrs, Monday, 3rd March 1947, NATO Headquarters, Frankfurt, Germany.

  …Twenty-two minutes earlier, seven miles north-northeast of Ceuta, North Africa.

  1618 hrs, Tuesday, 4th March 1947, Lindingö, Sweden.

  1903 hrs, Tuesday, 4th March 1947, Den Gyldene Freden Österlånggatan 51, Stockholm, Sweden.

  2130 hrs, Tuesday, 4th March 1947, Riksplan, Stockholm, Sweden.

  2159 hrs, Tuesday, 4th March 1947, Headquarters, Swedish Military Intelligence, Stockholm.

  Chapter 189 - THE SUSPICIONS

  0151 hrs, Wednesday, 5th March 1947, Çanakkale Naval Fortified Command Building, Çanakkale, Turkey.

  1212 hrs, Wednesday, 5th March 1947, Headquarters of the Red Banner Forces of Soviet Europe, Brest Litovsk, USSR.

  2054 hrs, Thursday, 6th March 1947, the Kremlin Grand Park, Moscow, USSR.

  2143 hrs, Thursday, 6th March 1947, Colonel General Kaganovich’s office, the Kremlin, Moscow, USSR.

  0403 hrs, Friday, 7th March 1947, senior officer’s guest bedroom, the Kremlin Armoury, Moscow, USSR.

  1005 hrs, Friday, 7th March 1947, House of Madame Fleriot, La Vigie, Nogent L’Abbesse, near Reims, France.

  1922 hrs, Friday, 7th March 1947, office of General Strong, NATO Headquarters, Frankfurt, Germany.

  2032 hrs, Friday, 7th March 1947, Imperial College, London, England.

  CHAPTER 190 - THE UNCONCEIVABLE

  1653 hrs, Saturday, 8th March 1947, Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse, temporary government building #1, Magdeburg, Germany.

  1359 hrs, Sunday, 9th March 1947, Opera Square, Frankfurt, Germany.

  1127 hrs, Monday 10th March 1947, Justizzentrum, temporary government building #3, Magdeburg, Germany.

  2204 hrs, Monday, 10th March 1947, the Straits of Gibraltar.

  1143 hrs, Wednesday, 12th March 1
947, the Kremlin, Moscow, USSR.

  1109 hrs, Thursday, 13th March, 1947, House of Madame Fleriot, La Vigie, Nogent L’Abbesse, near Reims, France.

  1058 hrs, Friday 14th March 1947, Rhein-Main Airbase, Frankfurt, Germany.

  [Nine minutes and forty-seven seconds earlier]

  1103 hrs, Friday, 14th March 1947, Imperial College, London, England.

  1107 hrs, Friday, 14th March 1947, Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse, temporary government building #1, Magdeburg, Germany.

  1109 hrs, Friday, 14th March 1947, Christopherusschule, Scharmede, Germany.

  Chapter 191 - THE CRESCENDO

  1307 hrs, Friday, 14th March 1947, Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse, temporary government building #1, Magdeburg, Germany.

  1359 hrs, Friday, 14th March 1947, Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse, temporary government building #1, Magdeburg, Germany.

  1601 hrs, Friday 14th March 1947, Camp Vár, Sweden.

  2031 hrs, Friday, 14th March 1947, Shared bar, Camp Vár, Sweden.

  0100 hrs Saturday, 15th March 1947, somewhere in Poland.

  0158 hrs, Saturday, 15th March 1947, the Elk-Bydgoszcz-Küstrin-Berlin safe air corridor. Northeastern Europe.

  Chapter 192 - THE REENGAGEMENT

  0200 hrs, Saturday, 15th March 1947, Europe.

  0200 hrs, Saturday, 15th March 1947, Camerone Headquarters, Staszow, Poland.

  0213 hrs, Saturday, 15th March 1947, Headquarters of the Red Banner Forces of Soviet Europe, Brest Litovsk, USSR.

  0213 hrs, Saturday, 15th March 1947, NATO’s new forward headquarters, Leipzig, Germany.

  0300 hrs, Saturday, 15th March 1947, Europe.

  CHAPTER 193 - THE FOUNTAIN

  0801 hrs Saturday, 15th March, 1947, the Kremlin, Moscow, USSR.

  1800 hrs, Saturday, 15th March 1947, NATO Headquarters, Leipzig, Germany.

  1800 hrs, Saturday, 15th March 1947, the White House, Washington DC, USA.

  0108 hrs, Sunday, 16th March 1947, the Kremlin, Moscow, USSR.

  0121 hrs, Sunday, 16th March 1947, Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse, temporary government building #1, Magdeburg, Germany.

  0400 hrs, Sunday, 16th March 1947, Vienna, Austria.

  0431 hrs, Sunday, 16th March 1947, Rustenallee, the Schönbrunn Palace gardens, Vienna, Austria.

  0703 hrs, Sunday, 16th March 1947, emergency casualty-clearing station, 76 Maxingstrasse, Vienna, Austria.

  Chapter 194 - THE BLADES

  0904 hrs, Monday, 17th March 1947, Colonel General Kaganovich’s office, the Kremlin, Moscow, USSR.

  1000 hrs, Monday, 17th March 1947, Colonel General Kaganovich’s office, the Kremlin, Moscow, USSR.

  1133 hrs, Tuesday, 18th March 1947, Medzany, Czechoslovakia.

  1150 hrs Tuesday, 18th March 1947, Saris Castle, Height 570, Veľký Šariš, Czechoslovakia.

  1201 hrs, Tuesday, 18th March 1947, base of Height 570, Medzany, Czechoslovakia.

  1211 hrs, Tuesday, 18th March 1947, Saris Castle, Height 570, Veľký Šariš, Czechoslovakia.

  1232 hrs, Tuesday, 18th March 1947, base of Height 570, Medzany, Czechoslovakia.

  Chapter 195 - THE BRIEFCASE

  1503 hrs, Tuesday, 18th March 1947, the Kremlin, Moscow, USSR.

  1703 hrs, Tuesday, 18th March 1947, Imperial College, London, England.

  1109 hrs, Wednesday, 19th March, 1947, House of Madame Fleriot, La Vigie, Nogent L’Abbesse, near Reims, France.

  1638 hrs, Wednesday, 19th March 1947, Haserich, Mosel.

  1203 hrs, Thursday, 20th March 1947, headquarters building, 75th Investigative Company, Alpenzoo, Innsbruck, Austria.

  1239 hrs, Thursday, 20th March 1947, bridge over the Kästenbach, Reidenhausen, Mosel.

  1744 hrs, Thursday, 20th March 1947, Allied Intelligence Special Operations Centre, die Hegerhaus, Horberg Masslau, Germany.

  1800 hrs, Thursday, 20th March 1947, Allied Intelligence Special Operations Centre, die Hegerhaus, Horberg Masslau, Germany.

  1127 hrs, Friday, 21st March 1947, Camp Steel, on the Meer van Echternach, Luxembourg.

  1200 hrs, Friday, 21st March 1947, lecture room three, Camp Steel, on the Meer van Echternach, Luxembourg.

  1616 hrs, Sunday, 23rd March 1947, Allied Intelligence Special Operations Centre, die Hegerhaus, Horberg Masslau, Germany.

  2000 hrs, Sunday, 23rd March 1947, NATO Headquarters, Leipzig, Germany.

  Chapter 196 - THE HUSBAND

  0615 hrs, Tuesday, 25th March 1947, with the Polish Army, Lithuania.

  0700 hrs, Tuesday, 25th March 1947, Bagdononys, Lithuania.

  0729 hrs, Tuesday, 25th March 1947, 1197th Rifle Regiment’s command post, Seirijai, Lithuania.

  0750 hrs, Tuesday, 25th March 1947, Old Man’s Nose, Route 2507, 500 metres southwest of Seirijai, Lithuania.

  0815 hrs, Tuesday, 25th March 1947, 500 metres northeast of Senis Nosis, Seirijai, Lithuania.

  0820 hrs, Tuesday, 25th March 1947, Polish reserve position, Old Man’s Nose, Seirijai, Lithuania.

  0828 hrs, Tuesday, 25th March 1947, Senis Nosis, Seirijai, Lithuania.

  0833 hrs, Tuesday, 25th March 1947, Old Man’s Nose, Seirijai, Lithuania.

  1722 hrs, Tuesday, 25th March 1947, ad hoc medical facility, Seilunai, Lithuania.

  1844 hrs, Tuesday, 25th March 1947, RAF Photo Interpretation Room, Bautzen Airfield, Germany.

  Chapter 197 - THE REVELATIONS

  1130 hrs, Wednesday, 26th March 1947, Degimas Woods, Lithuania.

  1617 hrs, Wednesday, 26th March 1947, Timi Woods Camp, Paphos, Cyprus.

  0900 hrs, Thursday, 27th March 1947, Paphos Airfield, Cyprus.

  1300 hrs, Thursday, 27th March 1947, Timi Woods Camp, Paphos, Cyprus.

  1154 hrs, Saturday, 29th March 1947, Karup Air Base, Denmark.

  1220 hrs, Saturday, 29th March 1947, Timi Woods Camp, Paphos, Cyprus.

  1200 hrs, Saturday, 29th March 1947, Camerone Division Headquarters, Staszow, Poland.

  1203 hrs, Sunday, 30th March 1947, Lieutenant General Kaganovich’s Dacha, Moscow, USSR.

  CHAPTER 198 - RAGNARØKKR

  1124 hrs, Sunday, 30th March 1947, NATO Headquarters, Leipzig, Germany.

  2351 hrs, Sunday, 30th March 1947, headquarters of 1st GMRD, Polanów, Poland.

  2351 hrs, Sunday, 30th March 1947, headquarters, Legion Corps D’Assaut, Grzybów, Poland.

  0007 hrs, Monday 31st March 1947, Volga River jetty, Camp 1001, Uspenka, USSR.

  0300 hrs, Tuesday. 1st April 1947, Bukowa, Poland.

  0219 hrs, Tuesday. 1st April 1947, headquarters, 116th Guards Rifle Division, Koprzywnica, Poland.

  0250 hrs, Tuesday. 1st April 1947, Camerone Division Headquarters, Staszow, Poland.

  0321 hrs, Tuesday. 1st April 1947, two kilometres northeast of Koprzywnica, Poland.

  0331 hrs, Tuesday. 1st April 1947, Route 79, three kilometres northeast of Koprzywnica, Poland.

  0334 hrs, Tuesday. 1st April 1947, Route 79, four kilometres northeast of Koprzywnica, Poland.

  0340 hrs, Tuesday. 1st April 1947, Route 79, three kilometres northeast of Koprzywnica, Poland.

  0457 hrs, Tuesday. 1st April 1947, five hundred metres south of Wólka Gieraszowska, Poland.

  0458 hrs, Tuesday. 1st April 1947, Koprzywnica, Poland.

  0520 hrs, Tuesday. 1st April 1947, west of Kamieniec. Poland.

  0530 hrs, Tuesday. 1st April 1947, the Koprzywianka Bridge, four hundred metres southeast of Sośniczany, Poland.

  0539 hrs, Tuesday. 1st April 1947, Route 79, five hundred metres east of Sośniczany, Poland.

  0546 hrs, Tuesday. 1st April 1947, Szewce, Poland.

  0546 hrs, Tuesday. 1st April 1946, Route 79, Poland.

  0600 hrs, Tuesday. 1st April 1947, the Soviet positions on the Koprzywianka River near Route 79, Poland.

  0611 hrs, Tuesday. 1st April 1947, Sulisɫawice, Poland.

  0618 hrs, Tuesday. 1st April 1947, northern defensive line, Sulisɫawice, Poland.

  0628 hrs, Tuesday. 1st April 1947, Sulisɫawice, Poland.

  0654 hrs, Tuesday.
1st April 1947, Sulisɫawice, Poland.

  0700 hrs, Tuesday. 1st April 1947, Sulisɫawice, Poland.

  0750 hrs, Tuesday. 1st April 1947, headquarters of Special Combat Group Rybalko, Zawichost, Poland.

  0752 hrs, Tuesday. 1st April 1947, Sulisɫawice, Poland.

  0820 hrs, Tuesday. 1st April 1947, the hell that was Sulisɫawice, Poland.

  0848 hrs, Tuesday. 1st April 1947, the hell that was Sulisɫawice, Poland.

  0853 hrs, Tuesday. 1st April 1947, the hell that was Sulisɫawice, Poland.

  0915 hrs, Tuesday, 1st April 1947, Sulisɫawice, Poland.

  CHAPTER 199 - THE PLOTTERS

  2211 hrs, Friday, 4th April 1947, House of Madame Fleriot, La Vigie, Nogent L’Abbesse, near Reims, France.

  2301 hrs, Friday, 4th April 1947, GRU West Headquarters, Brest Litovsk, USSR.

  1754 hrs, Saturday, 5th April 1947, the Kremlin, Moscow. USSR.

  1934 hrs, Saturday, 5th April 1947, the Kremlin, Moscow, USSR.

  List of Figures within Endgame.

  Author’s note on the Auschwitz section.

  Legion Tank conversions and types.

  Glossary

  Bibliography

  Read the beginning of the final book in the Red Gambit series now.

  CHAPTER 200 - THE CONVERGENCE

  1424 hrs, Sunday 8th April 1947, Moscow City Zoo, Moscow, USSR.

  0348 hrs, Tuesday, 10th April 1947, forty kilometres south of Clark’s Harbour, Nova Scotia.

  1130 hrs, Thursday, 12th April 1947, Timi Woods Camp, Paphos, Cyprus.

  1207 hrs, Thursday, 12th April 1947, 7th Mechanised Cooperation Training School, Verkhiny Baskunchak, USSR.

  Text from rear of the paperback.

  Fig # 223 - List of important locations within Endgame.

  Never was anything great achieved without danger.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Chapter 172 - THE STRAIGHTS

  1509 hrs, Monday, 19th August 1946, Chateau de Versailles, France.

  Kenneth Strong, Chief of Military Intelligence to NATO, stood as his visitor was ushered in.

  “General Gehlen. Good afternoon. Tea?”

  The head of the Germany’s Military Intelligence Section shook his head.

  “I’m afraid not, General Strong. I’ve only a little time. This is an unofficial call, as I told your aide... I must not be missed.”