At 12.20pm that Thursday, the Brigade Major of the Grenadier Guards received a phone message that sent a shiver of shock through him.The Garrison Sergeant Major asked the deceptively simple question: 'Is everything quiet in the headquarters?''I knew instantly there was only one reason why he would ask that question,' said Lieutenant Colonel J.N.E.B. Shaw. 'And with that the most intense 11 days of my life began.'
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