Entry Text: | MALLALIEU, J. P. W. On Larkhill. [iv], 211p., illus. London: Allison & Busby, 1983. ISBN: 0850315166. A distinguished post-war politician and author of the excellent semi-autobiographical wartime novel A Very Ordinary Seaman, (q.v.), this autobiography covers his early life to 1945. There is a very brief section describing his wartime naval career and the writing of his novel about the Arctic convoys. |
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