Mark Lynton

An amazing WWII story: the author, a German Jew studying at Cambridge, was interned, shipped to Canada with other internees, changed his name from Loewenstein to Lynton, volunteered, led a tank squadron through France and Germany, helped liberate Bergen-Belsen, and when the war ended joined the Intelligence and interviewed German prisoners, including Himmler. The Mark Lucas History Prize was established after his death in 1997, to reward the authors of "book-length works of history, on any subject, that best combine intellectual or scholarly distinction with felicity of expression."… (más)