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Pat 83 the elite to artists mechanical BE ved and mo `ak w was systematic, unrelenting and uncompromising in its pursuit of and writers cre nse : his inte and the consequences formy those , Qghters PUBLISHED SEPTEM ene viving of death sur the period, while failing to see the much disturbing treachery others – d with dicemore htly • Thethroughout comparison between the nig th America to Sou being watched. and 0 USA 202 the to Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess and Kim Philby, for example. About the Author ton was sent right-wing nature of MI5 and the `ying duties Welling On completion of se. SWORD AVIATIO focuses a cau significant About the Author Allied PENa&degree t for the on h suc left-wing views of most bolster supItpor Richard Knott has ets targ ties to distant number of writers and artists ger, night-time sor dan this rtal of e mo ton nt artists and writers Richard Knott has a degree in History from the University of London. He has worked as an sta the in History from the University e. Yet ged strain of con prolon have been immens The teacher es mu orations who were either ofstthe actor (with the Royal Shakespeare Company), and management consultant. His comrad ofmembers r photographs can thoworked has d. His numerous dec of London. He Au and the steady loss Milan Home asLetters destly understate t. previous books include: Posted in Wartime: from Abroad (Pen &itive Sword, and moBritain pos Communist Party of Great PathQnder Piloas ains lish rem ilable upon requ moir ava e to pub • The2017); ColdBlack War and decline vivi g me de ileg an actor (with the Royal ma priv e hug a Night for the Bomber Command (Pend &`yin Sword, 2007 & 2014); Flying Boats of the is it and ak volumesof spe orHistory were suspected being ntsPress, me ieve ach of communism in 2011); Britain, Empire (Robert Hale, The Sketchbook (The 2013 & 2014); and andWar Shakespeare Company), teacher travellers’. The Trio (Thein History 2015). he has‘fellow written two books on the teaching of culminating the Press, events of Previously 1956 out and management consultant. Author War to Ab1988),the English, a poetry anthology (Wordlife, Nelson, and a book of cricket quotations the Second World in Hungary. on the outbreak of (Cricket: Wit, Wickets and Wisdom, Running Press, 1996). He lives nearleft Bristol. his farm in Brazil on `ying ton ed 106 Squadr R A (Wimpy) Welling y pilot training, he join of his quota of sixt Force. After bomber on. On completion join the Royal Air PathQnder Squadr 83 a before to ving mo and South Americ th Nor in Lancasters before rs tou ure well recorded in this out ‘`ag `ying’ lect se experiences are missions he carried time Lisbon. All the Air Attache in war
