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... Home Guard , and he worked for the BBC Eastern Service from 1940 to 1943. As literary editor of Tribune he contributed a regular page of political and literary commentary ; he also became a regular book - reviewer for the Observer and ...
... Home Guard , and he worked for the BBC Eastern Service from 1940 to 1943. As literary editor of Tribune he contributed a regular page of political and literary commentary ; he also became a regular book - reviewer for the Observer and ...
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... Home Guard , in which he was an effective but unorthodox platoon sergeant . And he actually believed , during the time he was writing this book , that the Home Guard should and could be- come a revolutionary popular army . This belief ...
... Home Guard , in which he was an effective but unorthodox platoon sergeant . And he actually believed , during the time he was writing this book , that the Home Guard should and could be- come a revolutionary popular army . This belief ...
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... Home Guard and get a gun ) . So perhaps he welcomed the chance to write a long pamphlet or a short book that would pull together and extend several themes he had floated in occasional pieces . He wrote it in London during the worst time ...
... Home Guard and get a gun ) . So perhaps he welcomed the chance to write a long pamphlet or a short book that would pull together and extend several themes he had floated in occasional pieces . He wrote it in London during the worst time ...
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