75 years on from the first publication of "1066 and All That", Craig Brown takes over where Sellars and Yeatman left off. With all the zest and exuberance of the original, "1966 and All That" takes us on a half-remembered journey of imperial decline, loss of mustaches, The Sewers Crisis...
The first message sent to Tom Thorne's phone was just a picture - the blurred image of a man's face, but Thorne had seen enough dead bodies to know that the man was no longer alive. But who was he? Who sent the photograph? And why? While the technical experts attempt to trace the sender, Thorne searches the bulletins for a reported death that matches the photograph. Then another picture arrives.