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Cole, G.D.H.

He was born in Cambridge as George Douglas Howard Cole, but got his basic schooling at St. Paul’s School in London. He subsequently started at Oxford University, his subjects including classical and modern literature, and he gained a good degree. He got a position as professor of philosophy at the University of Durham 1913-14, but then returned to London where he did research for an organisation o...

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Tad Anders

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A Polish soldier fled to England at the outbreak of the Second World War, married an English woman and had a son, Tadeusz ‘Tad’ Anders. Then he died in the war, and the boy is brought up by the mother. As an adult, Anders became a professional killer for the MI6 secret service until he retired and started to run a pub in a short suite of novels by Ted Allbeury. But his services are still needed…

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