A sad, sad story, about Esmond, Keith. These are the miserable things that happen to people in wartime.

Most of the German sailors on the Scharnhorst died miserably too, much later in the war, when their ship was surrounded, battered into a wreck, and sunk in the freezing Arctic waters at the Battle of the North Cape. Very few of them were rescued.

It's a rotten business all the way around.