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Alexander Baron ... was the greatest British novelist of [World War II] and among the finest, most underrated, of the postwar period. --John Williams, The Guardian

Alexander Baron ... was the greatest British novelist of [World War II] and among the finest, most underrated, of the postwar period."" —John Williams, The Guardian

"""Alexander Baron ... was the greatest British novelist of [World War II] and among the finest, most underrated, of the postwar period."" --John Williams, The Guardian"

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Colin Holmes is Emeritus Professor of History in the University of Sheffield. His publications include Anti-Semitism in British Society (1979), John Bull’s Island (1988), and Searching for Lord Haw-Haw (2016). Alexander Baron (1917-1999) was a commanding author of post-war London, renowned above all for The Lowlife, and also one of the most compelling novelists of the infantry man's experience of the Second World War, based on his own war service. Nick Baron is a historian specialising in twentieth-century Russia and Eastern Europe. He has also curated and acted as consultant to several major exhibitions and a feature-length film.

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