When the dreaded battles in the west finally began, the first news of bulletins had confirmed a universal sense of replay of the battles in Flanders and of impending carnage. Instead, at the end of June 1940 Ernst Guicking found himself in Toulon, eating first pork leg, then roast calf, sausage with vegetables and to finish a wonderful dessert. Apricots with cherries. To go with it two bottles of red wine. And the whole lot cost the impossible price of nine francs. That’s 75 German pfennig. Yes, yes, you’re right. We’re living like ‘God in