Fantastic novel. (Reliable notes in twelve notebooks). Yielding to the urgent requests of my dear wife and our son Jim, a young doctor of biology, I am going to set out in these notebooks perhaps more fully those amazing events that unfolded in Ashworth thirty-five years ago, as well as the adventures that fate sent me. They took place at a time when humanity recovered from the horrors of war and thought to enjoy a long peace, not suspecting that it would soon be plunged again into the abyss of the greatest military disasters...