ABSTRACT
Swingler is demobbed in March 1946. He is suffering from depression, alopecia and nightmares. And he is drinking too much. He writes the Lazarus sonnets and returns to edit Our Time with Edgell Rickword. He is active in the Salisbury Group, and becomes friends with Paul Hogarth and David Holbrook. Swingler and Bush write The Winter Journey. He publishes The Years of Anger. Orwell attacks him in print and includes him on the list he provides the IRD. After The Communist Answer to the Challenge of Our Time, Swingler is attacked inside the CP.
