Downstream

for playing Tarzan, before he
went to Germany to become a
glider pilot.
I’m entranced by Derham’s
story, until I turn the page and
Penny suddenly declares that
her father was an admirer of
Adolf Hitler, because of what
he ‘was doing for the material
welfare and advancement of
his then bankrupt country’,
although he also warned that
the German leader was a
‘mad dog bent on conquering