I think I read 'The Seed & The Sower' (POW 'memoirs' and lots of dark night of the soul god stuff) after randomly picking it off someone's bookshelf, so in my defense it was a while before I found out he was so in-step with the UK establishment. Thatcher too, FFS! He wrote a book about Russia after travels there, 'Journey into Russia', which I thought was decent apart from some dodgy generalisations about a Russian 'character' which supposedly led them to put up with authority and despotism. Right, all 150m of them, encompassing all the different ethnicities and religions, have exactly the same outlook & attitude... Probably half of it was made up or exaggerated based on a 24hr soujourn.

Whatevs...
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