"performed under so humble a title."" Ford marked, with George Borrow the eccentric English traveller, an interest in Spain that would continue through the twentieth century on the part of British writers: Gerald Brenan, Norman Lewis and George Orwell were among the most eminent of these successors, with Jason Webster (the author of ""Duende"", ""Andalus"" and ""Guerra"") and Chris Stewart (the author of ""Driving Over Lemons"") being contemporary. The original edition was published by John Murray in 1845 in two volumes. The following year in 1846 he prepared a more manageable version entitled ""Gatherings from Spain"" which included some extra"
"until the end of the war. On January 17, 1946, he was awarded an OBE for his service in Burma. After a spell as a staff officer in GHQ India in Delhi, he then served as an instructor at the British Army Staff College, Camberley. He left the army after this posting, and moved to the United States, where he attempted to set up a business promoting walking tours in the Himalayas, one of his hobbies. The business was not a success and, to make ends meet, he decided to write of his experiences in the army. When his novels"
"to have been fakes. Alan Hillgarth Captain Alan Hugh Hillgarth, CMG, OBE (1899–1978) was a British adventure novelist and member of the intelligence services, perhaps best known for his activities in Spain during and following the Spanish Civil War. Hillgarth appears as one of the actual historical figures in C. J. Sansom's 2006 novel, ""Winter in Madrid"", and also in María Dueñas's 2009 novel, ""El tiempo entre costuras"" (English translation 2011, ""The Time in Between"" (US), ""The Seamstress"" (UK)). In the book ""Roosevelt & Churchill: Men of Secrets"", the historian David Stafford gives an account of Hillgarth's links with Winston"
"of an L.A. County P.I.)"" and ""So You Wanna Be A Private Eye"". Nicholas Cain Nicholas Cain is a private investigator and author of action novels. Cain was born and raised in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. In 1972, despite a relatitvely high draft number of 363, he volunteered for the Vietnam War, where he served as a US Army military policeman until 1973. He also served as an MP in Denver, Colorado at the Fitzsimons Army Medical Center, then in Thailand with the 281st MPs at Amphoe Sattahip/Vayama, and in South Korea with the 110th MPs at Daejeon. In"
"Ernest Warwick Ernest Warwick was a British author, prisoner of war and survivor of the Burma to Siam death railway. Ernest Edward Lawrence Warwick was born in Brighton in 1918 towards the end of the first World War. He had a tough upbringing through the slump and poverty of the thirties. The eldest of eight children, with four brothers and three sisters, he was forced to leave school at 13 years of age after his father had been killed the day before in a road accident. At the outbreak of World War 2 in 1939, he was called up and,"
"Peter Elstob Peter Frederick Egerton Elstob (22 December 1915 - 21 July 2002) was a British soldier, adventurer, novelist, military historian and entrepreneur. In his writing he is best known for his lightly-fictionalized novel ""Warriors For the Working Day"" (1960) and his military history of the Battle of the Bulge, ""Hitler's Last Offensive"" (1971). He joined the Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War, and later served in the Royal Tank Regiment in World War II, in which service he was promoted to sergeant and was Mentioned in Dispatches. He joined International PEN in 1962 and served first as general"
"Nicholas Cain Nicholas Cain is a private investigator and author of action novels. Cain was born and raised in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. In 1972, despite a relatitvely high draft number of 363, he volunteered for the Vietnam War, where he served as a US Army military policeman until 1973. He also served as an MP in Denver, Colorado at the Fitzsimons Army Medical Center, then in Thailand with the 281st MPs at Amphoe Sattahip/Vayama, and in South Korea with the 110th MPs at Daejeon. In 1975, he left with an honorable military discharge and the rank of sergeant."
"R. V. C. Bodley Ronald Victor Courtenay Bodley, (3 March 1892 – 26 May 1970) was a British Army officer, author and journalist. Born to English parents in Paris, he lived in France until he was nine, before attending Eton College and then the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was commissioned in the King's Royal Rifle Corps and served with them during the First World War. After the war he spent seven years in the Sahara desert, and then travelled through Asia. Bodley wrote several books about his travels. He was considered among the most distinguished British writers on the"
"Peter Kemp (writer) Peter Mant MacIntyre Kemp (Bombay, 19 August 1913 – London, 30 October 1993), known as Peter Kemp, was an English soldier and writer. The son of a judge in British India, Kemp was educated at Wellington College and proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge where he studied classics and law. He became notable for his participation in the Spanish Civil War and during World War II as a member of the Special Operations Executive. As a staunch Conservative and Monarchist, he was alarmed by the rise of Communism and in November 1936, shortly after the end of the"
"he resigned from the Indian Imperial Police to become a writer, with effect from 12 March 1928 after five-and-a-half years of service. He drew on his experiences in the Burma police for the novel ""Burmese Days"" (1934) and the essays ""A Hanging"" (1931) and ""Shooting an Elephant"" (1936). In England, he settled back in the family home at Southwold, renewing acquaintance with local friends and attending an Old Etonian dinner. He visited his old tutor Gow at Cambridge for advice on becoming a writer. In 1927 he moved to London. Ruth Pitter, a family acquaintance, helped him find lodgings, and"
"appeared in channel 4's scars of war documentary recounting his experiences in captivity. Also he was flown to New York to give evidence in federal court on his experiences on the river kwai in a case against Sony. Ernest Warwick Ernest Warwick was a British author, prisoner of war and survivor of the Burma to Siam death railway. Ernest Edward Lawrence Warwick was born in Brighton in 1918 towards the end of the first World War. He had a tough upbringing through the slump and poverty of the thirties. The eldest of eight children, with four brothers and three sisters,"
"Benjamin King (author) Benjamin King (also B. D. King) (born 1944) is an American author, military historian and noted war gamer. He served as a Field Artillery officer during the Vietnam War and later served as an historian for the US Army. He is best known for his historical novels ""A Bullet for Stonewall"" and ""A Bullet for Lincoln"". Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Benjamin King earned a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Connecticut. In 1965, he was commissioned as a Field Artillery officer in the US Army and assigned to 1st Battalion, 81st Field Artillery"
"Alan Hillgarth Captain Alan Hugh Hillgarth, CMG, OBE (1899–1978) was a British adventure novelist and member of the intelligence services, perhaps best known for his activities in Spain during and following the Spanish Civil War. Hillgarth appears as one of the actual historical figures in C. J. Sansom's 2006 novel, ""Winter in Madrid"", and also in María Dueñas's 2009 novel, ""El tiempo entre costuras"" (English translation 2011, ""The Time in Between"" (US), ""The Seamstress"" (UK)). In the book ""Roosevelt & Churchill: Men of Secrets"", the historian David Stafford gives an account of Hillgarth's links with Winston Churchill in prewar Majorca,"
"captive for two years before being released in 1973. His experience in combat served as inspiration for his numerous war novels, for which he became famous. Prajim Wongsuwan Prajim Wongsuwan (, 13 August 1938 – 20 January 1990), also known by the pen name Sayumphu Thotsaphon (), was a Thai novelist and sprinter. Prajim Wongsuwan was born in Nakhon Ratchasima. He graduated school from Ratchasima Wittayalai School and subsequently enlisted in the Army Non Commissioned Officer School. Under the army's employment, he competed in the men's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He later left the"
""""". He was also a one-time writer and creative consultant for ""Walker, Texas Ranger"". Corea was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. He enlisted in the United States Marines during the Vietnam War, was awarded the Purple Heart and reached the rank of Sergeant before being honorably discharged. Shortly thereafter, he returned to his hometown to join the University City, Missouri Police Department. While in the military, he was an active contributor to ""Stars and Stripes"" and later wrote the police novel ""A Cleaner Breed"" in 1974. Following the success of his first book, Corea entered the television industry"
"Richard Parsons (diplomat) Sir Richard Parsons (14 March 1928 – 23 April 2016) was a British diplomat who was ambassador to Hungary, Spain and Sweden, and a novelist, playwright and (under a pseudonym) crime writer. Richard Edmund Clement Fownes Parsons was educated at Bembridge School and Brasenose College, Oxford. He served in the British Army 1949–51, then joined the Diplomatic Service. Between posts at the Foreign Office (later the Foreign and Commonwealth Office) he served at the embassies in Washington, D.C., Vientiane, Buenos Aires, Ankara and Lagos. He was ambassador to Hungary 1976–79, to Spain 1980–84, and to Sweden 1984–87."
"2014, with full honors. Hilsman wrote a number books about 20th century American foreign policy as well as a few on other topics. His works include: Roger Hilsman Roger Hilsman Jr. (November 23, 1919 – February 23, 2014) was an American soldier, government official, political scientist, and author. He served in Merrill's Marauders, and then with the Office of Strategic Services as a guerrilla leader, in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II. He later was an aide and adviser to President John F. Kennedy and, briefly, to President Lyndon B. Johnson, in the U.S. State Department while serving as"
"also had an affair with a US journalist, Kitty Bowler, whom he later married. In February 1937 he was wounded in the Battle of Jarama. While injured in Spain he became friends with Ernest Hemingway, who based one of his characters upon him. He spent some months as a machine gun instructor. When he returned to the battalion the next summer he contracted typhoid, was again wounded at Quinto in August 1937 and was repatriated in October. His later book ""English Captain"" is based on these experiences. In 1938, the Communist Party condemned Kitty Bowler as a Trotskyist spy but"
"Charles T. Lanham Major General Charles Trueman Lanham (September 14, 1902 – July 20, 1978) known as ""Buck"" was an author, poet, and professional soldier, winning 14 decorations in his career. After retiring from the military, he was active in corporate business. He is the model for one of Ernest Hemingway's heroes, and in life was a close friend of the author. Lanham was born in Washington D. C.. He graduated from West Point in 1924. He was a short story writer and published poet (writing sonnets for several magazines) as well as a soldier. He included among his many"
"whom he was named. He was educated at St. Columba's College, Dublin and Keble College, Oxford, but after only one term he volunteered for the army, serving as an officer in France during the First World War until invalided out in 1915. He became an avid pacifist after his experiences of war, and left Ireland to teach English in Switzerland. He also taught in England before returning to Ireland, not retiring until he was in his 80's. As a British Officer on leave in Ireland, he was involved in the Easter Rising of 1916. His book ""Inglorious Soldier"" gives a"
"Society, the National Guard and even the Royal military Academy at Sand Hurst. Rod Usher Roderick Macleod Usher (born 1946) is an Australian author living in Spain. Usher's father was American, and his mother was Australian. He grew up in Melbourne, where he studied law before taking up journalism. He now lives in Extremadura, Spain. He is a former chief sub-editor of ""The Sunday Times"" in London and a former literary editor of ""The Age"" in Melbourne. Until 2001 he was senior writer for ""Time"" magazine in Europe. Most of his working life has involved journalism, including ten years on"
"Leon Comber Leon (Leonard Francis) Comber (born 20 September 1921) was a British military and police officer, and later book publisher, operating in British India, Malaya, Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia. He was also an editor and author of books relating to South-East Asia. Comber, an only child, was born in London. His mother was married to a master bookbinder and typesetter. He was reading law at King's College, London, in 1939 when the Second World War began. During World War Two, Comber served as a British officer in the Indian Army and took part in military operations in Assam"
"Arthur Stratton Arthur Mills Perce Stratton (1911 – 3 September 1975) was an American author and traveller. He was a playwright, a novelist, an OSS agent, a teacher in Turkey, and an assistant college professor in the US, before working for the CIA for about ten years and becoming a travel writer and biographer. While serving with the American Field Service as a World War II ambulance driver, he was twice awarded the Croix de guerre for bravery under fire, the first time on the Western Front, the second in North Africa. Stratton was born in Brunswick, Maine, the son"
"have been released, ""Helden wie wir"" and ""Sonnenallee"". Thomas Brussig Thomas Brussig (born 1964) is a German writer best known for his satirical novels that deal with the German Democratic Republic. Brussig was born in East Berlin. After attending the ""Heinrich-Hertz"" School, he went on to train as a builder. In 1984 he finished school and training, and served in the East German National People's Army (German: ""Nationale Volksarmee"" or NVA). Brussig found it difficult to wield a weapon and had a hard time. He worked as a museum guard, cleaner and hotel porter among a variety of other odd"
"""The Antiquary"", and ""Shakespeariana"". Brinsley Nicholson Brinsley Nicholson M.D. (1824–1892) was a British physician, known as an editor of Elizabethan literature. Born at Fort George, Scotland, he was the eldest son of B. W. Hewittson Nicholson of the army medical staff. After a boyhood passed at Gibraltar, Malta, and the Cape, where his father was stationed, he entered Edinburgh University in 1841, in due time took his degree, and finished his medical studies in Paris. Becoming an army surgeon, Nicholson spent some years in South Africa, and saw service in the Xhosa Wars in 1853 and 1854. He was in"
"shot in Spain, was a failure. Other than this, for the remainder of his years he lived a more or less idle life, mainly on handouts, mostly in Rome and finally in Malta, where he died in 1968. Citations Sources Peter Rodd Hon. Peter Murray Rennell Rodd (16 April 1904 – 17 July 1968), soldier, aid worker, film-maker and idler, was the second son of Sir Rennell Rodd, a diplomat and politician who was ennobled in 1933 as Baron Rennell. He was educated at Wellington College and Balliol College, Oxford. Rodd was married to the novelist and socialite Nancy Mitford"
"He was appointed CMG while in Hungary and knighted KCMG during his posting to Spain. He died on 23 April 2016 at the age of 88. As John Haythorne: Richard Parsons (diplomat) Sir Richard Parsons (14 March 1928 – 23 April 2016) was a British diplomat who was ambassador to Hungary, Spain and Sweden, and a novelist, playwright and (under a pseudonym) crime writer. Richard Edmund Clement Fownes Parsons was educated at Bembridge School and Brasenose College, Oxford. He served in the British Army 1949–51, then joined the Diplomatic Service. Between posts at the Foreign Office (later the Foreign and"
"Allan Mallinson Brigadier Allan Lawrence Mallinson (born 6 February 1949) is an English author and retired British Army officer. Mallinson is best known for writing a series of novels chronicling the (fictional) life of Matthew Hervey, an officer serving in the (fictional) British 6th Light Dragoons from the late Napoleonic Wars through subsequent colonial conflicts in India, North America and South Africa. Mallinson was born on 6 February 1949 in Yorkshire, England, to Alfred and Edith Mallinson. From 1966, he trained for the Anglican priesthood at St Chad's College in Durham. Mallinson took a break from his theological studies to"
"Antony Read General Sir John Antony Jervis Read (10 September 1913 – 22 September 2000) was a senior British Army officer who was Quartermaster-General to the Forces from 1969 to 1973. He was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry during the campaign against the Italian army in East Africa in 1941 and the Distinguished Service Order for his leadership and gallantry whilst in command of 1 Gambia Regiment in Burma, in March 1945, during the Second World War. Educated at Winchester College and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Read was commissioned into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in"
"was to have three daughters. General Sir Antony Read died on 22 September 2000. 6. www.greenjackets-net.org.uk/oxford/cyprus. Antony Read General Sir John Antony Jervis Read (10 September 1913 – 22 September 2000) was a senior British Army officer who was Quartermaster-General to the Forces from 1969 to 1973. He was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry during the campaign against the Italian army in East Africa in 1941 and the Distinguished Service Order for his leadership and gallantry whilst in command of 1 Gambia Regiment in Burma, in March 1945, during the Second World War. Educated at Winchester College and at"
"rice—half the world's supply. Orwell served in a number of locations in Burma. Having spent a year of police training in Mandalay and Maymyo, his postings included Myaungmya, Twante, Syriam, Insein—(north of Rangoon, site of the colony's most secure prison, and now Burma's most notorious jail),—Moulmein, and Kathar. Kathar with its luxuriant vegetation, described by Orwell with relish, provided the physical setting for the novel. ""Burmese Days"" was several years in the writing. Orwell was drafting it in Paris during the time he spent there from 1928 to 1929. He was still working on it in 1932 at Southwold while"
"England, and a granddaughter of Edward England. Dudley Thornton Colonel Dudley Edwin Thornton, CBE, ERD (1 May 1919 – 22 April 2009) was a British soldier, who commanded the 18th Battalion of the King's African Rifles during the Burma Campaign, and was chairman of the Welch Regiment Museum, in Cardiff, from 1974 until his death. Dudley Edwin Thornton was born in Reigate, Surrey, on 1 May 1919. His father was Edwin Dudley (1865–1951), an electrical engineer, and his mother was Dorothy Rebecca Bryer (1894–1973). Thornton was educated, and brought up, in Bristol. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II,"
"George Wyman Bury G. Wyman Bury (3 January 1874 – 23 September 1920) was a naturalist, explorer, author, Arabist, and political officer in the British army. Born in Mancetter Manor House near the town of Atherstone, Bury was educated at Atherstone Grammar School and then by tutors (""Army crammers"") who specialized in preparing students for the examinations that were part of Army Officer Selection. In 1894 he received a commission in the 3rd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment. In 1895 Bury joined one of the rebel tribes in southern Morocco. In 1896 in the Aden littoral desert, he worked in archaeology"