Description - Comrade Heart by Andy Croft
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. "Comrade Heart" is the story of the lost world of radical Fitzrovia, from the Romantic Communism of the early 1930s to the founding of the New Left. It is a book about World War II 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. It is a book about poetry and music. And it is a love story. Croft's retelling of Randall Swingler's life from comfortable childhood and public school through to crushing penury should appeal to cultural, political and literary historians.
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