A Fighting Withdrawal: The Life of Dan Davin Writer, Soldier, Publisher - Couverture rigide

Ovenden, Keith

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0192123351 ISBN 13 : 9780192123350

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1996

Synopsis

Dan Davin was a man of paradoxes: a New Zealander who lived most of his life in Oxford; a man of action who fought in the front line during the Second World War, and made his reputation as a publisher and novelist; a devoted family man who nevertheless led a passionate personal life outside his marriage Born into an Irish Catholic working-class family in the New Zealand province of Southland, Davin prospered through his intellectual prowess, eventually winning a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University in 1935. At the outbreak of war he joined the army and served with the New Zealand Division in Greece, Crete, North Africa and Italy. The future official historian of the Crete campaign, he served in army intelligence before settling in London and then Oxford, where he began publishing his novels and formed friendships with fellow writers including Dylan Thomas and Julian Maclaren-Ross. Rising to a position as Academic Publisher at Oxford University Press, he was instrumental in the publication of major scholarly works and became the friend and confidant of Louis MacNeice, Joyce Cary, A. J. P. Taylor and many others. His often turbulent private life, in contrast to the domestic stabi

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0192123351
• ISBN 13: 9780192123350
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 491
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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