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- Alexander Baron (4 December 1917 – 6 December 1999) was a British author and screenwriter. He is best known for his highly acclaimed novel about D-Day, From the City, from The Plough (1948), and his London novel The Lowlife (1963).
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Alexander Baron ( 4 December 1917 – 6 December 1999) was a British author and screenwriter. He is best known for his highly acclaimed novel about D-Day, From the City, from The Plough (1948), and his London novel The Lowlife (1963).
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Jun 27, 2024 · By Alexander Baron. Imperial War Museum Wartime Classics, £8.99. . There’s a fascinating moment in his memoir, Chapters of Accidents, when Alexander Baron (1917-99) describes how he changed his...
Feb 5, 2020 · The taint of British anti-Semitism haunts the work of Alexander Baron, the most underrated Anglo-Jewish writer of the mid-20th century. Baron’s incandescent 1952 London novel, With Hope, Farewell (Five Leaves Publications, £9.99), unfolds amid the flag-waving jamborees of British fascist activists in the Jewish East End over the years 1928-48.
First published in 1963 it is a mordantly picaresque novel of contemporary local life and colour, yet a carefully interwoven back-story hints at Baron’s need to address the fate of the Jews in the Holocaust, only then being fully realised for the enormity it was.
Dec 6, 1999 · Alexander Baron (4 December 1917 – 6 December 1999) was a British author and screenwriter. He is best known for his highly acclaimed novel about D-Day entitled From the City from the Plough (1948) and his London novel The Lowlife (1963).
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Dec 27, 2017 · What has been largely overlooked, though, is the revival of interest in an extraordinary group of post-war Anglo-Jewish writers who had fallen into neglect, in particular, Alexander Baron,...
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. His first novel, From the City, From the Plough, sold massively on its publication in 1948.
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