Martin Bax, who has died aged 90, combined a career as an internationally renowned paediatrician with work as founder and editor for more than 50 years of Ambit, a distinctive and often controversial literary quarterly; he even found time to write novels.
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This November marks the former prime minister of Britain’s 150th birthday. Churchill is a continuing object of fascination, not only for his leadership during the Second World War, but also for his work as a historian. And nothing motivated his pen more than penury.
In this extract from his history of the SAS, BEN MACINTYRE tells how its first chief charmed Churchill into backing his ragtag unit . only to meet his match in a tubby German dentist.
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