Aubrey Herbert

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  John Bernard Pye Adams

  Adams was the first British soldier during World War I to publish his memoirs of service with the 1st Battalion. “Nothing of Importance – a record of 8 months at the front with a Welsh Battalion October 1915 to June 1916” was written whilst convalescing in England having been wounded in June 1916. His was the only record to be published in book form whilst the war was still being fought. He returned to the Front in January 1917 and was mortally wounded a month later.
  

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  Edmund Blunden

  Author, critic, and poet (the latter which for which he is most well known) Edmund Charles Blunden was born in London, and educated at The Queen's College at Oxford. In 1915 he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant with the Royal Sussex Regiment which he served with through the end of the war. He saw heavy action on the Western Front at both Ypres and the Somme, and was awarded the Military Cross. Miraculously he was never severely injured.
  
  Following the war he served as Professor of English at the University of Tokyo from 1924-1927. He returned to England as magazine editor, and in 1931 he became a tutor at Oxford University where his writing career flourished. Post Second World War he became Professor of English Literature in Hong Kong.

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  Francis Clifford

  Francis Clifford is a pen name of Arthur Leonard Bell Thompson , a British writer of crime and thriller novels. He was born in Bristol, served with great distinction in the Second World War, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order.

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  Leo McKinstry

  Leo McKinstry writes regularly for the Daily Mail, Sunday Telegraph and Spectator. He has also written nine books including a life of Geoff Boycott, which was recently named one of the finest cricket books written in a Wisden poll. His best-selling biography of the footballing Charlton brothers was a top-ten bestseller and won the Sports Book of the Year award, while his study of Lord Rosebery won Channel Four Political Book of the year. Most recently he has written a trilogy about the RAF in the Second World War, including Spitfire, Lancaster and Hurricane.
  
  Born in Belfast he was educated in Ireland and at Cambridge University.

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  Richard Rohmer

  Major-General (Ret'd) Richard Heath Rohmer, OC, CMM, DFC, O.Ont, KStJ, CD, OL, QC, JD, LLD (born in 1924). Canada's most decorated citizen, an aviator, a senior lawyer (aviation law), adviser to business leaders and the Government of Ontario and is a prolific writer. Rohmer was born in Hamilton, Ontario, and spent some of his early youth in Pasadena, California as well as in western Ontario at Windsor and Fort Erie.
  
  The Peterborough Examiner's lead editorial of 14 January 2009 says this: "Rohmer, one of Canada's most colourful figures of the past half-century, was a World War II fighter pilot, later a major-general in the armed forces reserve, a high-profile lawyer and a successful novelist and biographer."
  

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  Ron Parker

  Ron Parker lives in the North West of England with his cat, Suzy. He spends most of his time writing, but also somehow finds time to help with the local Scouts, is a school governor and an active member of his local Residents Association.
  

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  Michael J. Daniels

  Librarian Note: This profile contains more than one author. Those listed below have multiple books listed on GoodReads.
  
  Michael J. Daniels (2 spaces): GRs author of Becoming Mr. Right
  Michael J. Daniels (3 spaces):Books with a focus on Korea
  

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  Arthur Behrend

  Little is known of Arthur Behrend's life but he appears to have attended Sedbergh School, where he was in Hart House from 1910 to 1913.
  
  He seems to have spent time in Spain, particularly six months in Bilbao, in 1921. He was apparently learning about the Spanish side of the family business, which was the Bahr, Behrend Shipping Line. And he was given three months paid leave by his uncle in order
  to finish a novel that he was writing, which was entitled 'The House of the Spaniards'. He did finish it but it was not to be published until some years later in 1936. It was subsequently filmed by Ealing Studios.
  
  He was to write two other novels, both with a Liverpool background, 'Unlucky for Some' (1955), which also had a Sedbergh setting as he used h

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  Herbert W. McBride

  Born in Waterloo, Indiana to Robert W and Ida S. Chamberlain McBride, Herbert had a long family tradition of military service. His grandfather was killed in the Mexican War, and his father served the Union cavalry during the Civil War. Herbert McBride’s memoir "A Rifleman Went to War" is considered one of the best first-person accounts of World War I. McBride’s life was a mixture of honor and valor interspersed with personal failings. He noted in his book that by the end of 1916 he felt in his heart “the game was over,” and a series of alcoholic binges resulted in his court martial and dismissal from the Canadian Expeditionary Force in February 1917. He was wounded a total of seven times while in the service of the Canadian Army. McBride jo

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  James McCudden

  James Thomas Byford McCudden was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for valour in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
  
  With his six British medals and one French one, McCudden received more medals for gallantry than any other airman of British nationality serving in the First World War. He was also one of the longest serving, having joined the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) in 1913.
  
  McCudden's story is all the more remarkable as he rose through the RFC ranks (from Air Mechanic to Major) during the war to become one of the most decorated and honoured soldiers of the conflict. At his death he had amassed 57 victories, making him the seventh highest scoring ace of World War I.
  
  Tragically, he

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  John Bernard Pye Adams

  Adams was the first British soldier during World War I to publish his memoirs of service with the 1st Battalion. “Nothing of Importance – a record of 8 months at the front with a Welsh Battalion October 1915 to June 1916” was written whilst convalescing in England having been wounded in June 1916. His was the only record to be published in book form whilst the war was still being fought. He returned to the Front in January 1917 and was mortally wounded a month later.
  

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  William Henry Lowe Watson

  He was born at 98 Victoria Street, Westminster, London SW1 and was the second son of the Rev Patrick and Mrs Watson. His father was vicar at Earlsfield in the London Borough of Wandsworth.
  
  He grew to be ix foot five inches tall and was recruited more or less off the street when war was declared in 1914 and was posted to France.
  
  He was in the Signals Company attached to the 5th Division (one of the two Divisions which made up two Corps.
  
  He rose to be a temporary major in the tank corps, was mentioned in despatches and won the DCM and DSO. His DCM was awarded for 'conspicuous gallantry and resource on numerous occasions in carrying messages under shell and line fire, especially on the Aisne and at Givenchy'.
  
  In 1916 he married Ruth Barbara Wake,

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  Eddie V. Rickenbacker

  Edward Vernon Rickenbacker was an American fighter ace in World War I and Medal of Honor recipient. With 26 aerial victories, he was America's most successful fighter ace in the war. He was also a race car driver and automotive designer, a government consultant in military matters, and a pioneer in air transportation, particularly as the longtime head of Eastern Air Lines.
  
  See also: Eddie Rickenbacker and Edward Rickenbacker

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  Andrew Wilson

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  Steve Brown

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  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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  Alexander Solzenitsyn (English, alternate)
  Αλεξάντρ Σολζενίτσιν (Greek)
  
  Works, including One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) and The Gulag Archipelago (1973-1975), of Soviet writer and dissident Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970, exposed the brutality of the labor camp system.
  
  This known Russian novelist, dramatist, and historian best helped to make the world aware of the forced Gulag.
  
  Exiled in 1974, he returned to Russia in 1994. Solzhenitsyn fathered of Ignat Solzhenitsyn, a conductor and pianist.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksan...
  

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