A vicar, the man ran the household like a mini Soviet co-operative.
MY father was a man’s man. A callow student at Oxford in Britain when Germany invaded Poland in 1939, his personality was forged in the crucible of war: in the north African desert as an artillery officer at the battle of El Alamein; in Yugoslavia as a liaison officer with communist partisans.
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