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Peter Mant MacIntyre Kemp (19 August 1915 – 30 October 1993) was an English soldier and writer. He became notable for his participation in the Spanish Civil War and, during World War II , as a member of the Special Operations Executive (SOE).
Major Peter Kemp, Special Operations Executive [SOE] operative. Kemp was badly wounded while serving with Nationalist forces in the Spanish Civil War but was recruited into MI (R) in 1939. During 1941 - 1942, he was a member of Operation RELATOR, preparing for sabotage activity in the event of a German invasion of Spain and served with SOE's ...
Peter Mant MacIntyre Kemp (19 August 1915 – 30 October 1993) was an English soldier and writer. He became notable for his participation in the Spanish Civil War and, during World War II, as a member of the Special Operations Executive (SOE).
A key part of good fiction reviewing, he says, ‘is a willingness bravely to say something is dreadful, even if that’s in the face of a lot of received wisdom’. Kemp is also a member of the Booker Prize Advisory Committee. Peter Kemp is a trenchant literary critic, who was nominated for the 2014 Hatchet Job of the Year award for a review ...
Jul 9, 2020 · By about Chapter Three of Peter Kemp’s Mine Were of Trouble, you start to get a grasp of how surreal an experience the Spanish Civil War really was. Kemp, an Englishman who served for the Nationalists during the war, described his experiences in the form of a retrospective memoir written and published in the 1950s.
Psychological abnormality is even more rampant: Jacobean drama and the gothic novel pale alongside the cannibals, murderous psychotics, serial killers, necrophiliacs, baroque sadists and tattooed sociopaths prowling the pages of modern fiction. To attempt an overview of fiction in English since 1970 is to be dazzled by a shimmer of ...
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Combine Editions. Peter Kemp’s books. Average rating: 3.98 · 9,802 ratings · 723 reviews · 116 distinct works • Similar authors. Mine Were of Trouble. 4.33 avg rating — 899 ratings — published 1957 — 14 editions. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read. Currently Reading. Read.
