Comrade Heart

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Comrade Heart is written by Andy Croft and published by Manchester University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0719063345 (ISBN 10) and 9780719063343 (ISBN 13).

This is the extraordinary story of the English poet Randall Swingler, godson of the Archbishop of Canterbury, communist, librettist, publisher, propagandist, poet and war-hero. It is a book about the Second World War and the story of the African and Italian campaigns, recorded uniquely through the eyes of the ordinary soldier. It is a case study of the intellectual consequences of the Cold War in Britain, McCarthyism and Zhdanovism. Croft's retelling of Randall Swingler's life from comfortable childhood and public school through to crushing penury will appeal to cultural, political and literary historians.