Dan Davin was a novelist and publisher with an attractive bohemian streak. This book is his literary memoirs. In it he provides recollections of seven of his friends, all writers: Julian Maclaren-Ross, W R Rodgers, Louis MacNeice, Enid Starkie, Joyce Cary, Dylan Thomas, and the Yiddish poet Itzik Manger.  Meer

First published in 1986, these collected war stories are told in the order of the Middle East campaigns that provide their settings. One story, 'The General and the Nightingale,' gives a vivid picture of General Freyberg, the man Churchill called 'the Salamander of the British Empire'.  Meer