Giles Romilly, the age of Despair, ‘New Statesman and Nation'

An author and journalist, Romilly (1916–67) cut short his undergraduate career at Oxford to fight in the Spanish Civil War, and subsequently worked for the ‘Daily Express’. During the Second World War he was arrested by the Germans in Norway while on his way to cover the Russo-Finnish war and spent some years as a prisoner of war, partly in solitary confinement and eventually at Colditz.