| Entry Text: | MINSHALL, Merlin. Guilt-Edged. 319p., illus. London: Bachman & Turner, 1975. ISBN: 0859740323.
Minshall spent his life trying to prove that amateurs would always beat professionals - and losing. A well-connected child of the establishment he spent the prewar years cruising round Europe. He joined the RNVR and worked with Ian Fleming, plotting madcap escapes such as blowing up the Iron Gates on the Danube. He was exiled to New Zealand by Admiral Godfrey (a bête noire), but returned to Europe to spend the latter part of the war as naval liaison officer to Tito's partisans. What are intended as humorously self-deprecating memoirs become irritatingly full of blind prejudice. |
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