مؤلف: Neil Reid

The author was at school prior to the start of the Second world War has clear memory of German bombing and seeing Winston Churchill. His father was a member of the SIS (MI6) and following the war was Head of Station in Vienna. His mother an artist and teacher in consequence raised the author and siblings largely on her own. Following attending an ancient English School, he studied agriculture at Aberdeen. After military service in Germany, an agricultural career managing large historic estates brought him into close personal contact with the families of the Queen Mother and Lord Mountbatten. Protest involvement resulted in him becoming a member of a British Parliamentary Committee but declining invitation to become an M.P. In 1981 at age 47 he, his wife and family immigrated to Canada where he started a new management career. Ten years after his wife died he married a Cuban and now spends most of his time in Cuba. With a fascinating background he lucidly describes eighty years of unusual life and of history.