Sheila Rowbotham

Apr 27, 2023 | versobooks.com | Raphael Samuel |Sheila Rowbotham |Tariq Ali

We have waited a long time for this war's All Quiet on the Western Front', wrote the critic V.S. Pritchett in 1948. ‘Here it is.' Pritchett was reviewing the recently-published novel From the City, From the Plough by my father, Alexander Baron (1917-1999). The novel was a fictionalised account of Baron’s experiences as a British soldier in the Second World War. When the book became a runaway success, Baron became a full-time writer.