David Armine Howarth
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- For Liberal Dmocrat MP, see David Howarth.
David Howarth (1912 – 1991) was a British historian and author. He was a war correspondent for BBC at the start of the Second World War, but joined the Navy after the fall of France. He became involved in the Special Operations Executive and ultimately in the Shetland Bus, an SOE operation manned by Norwegians running a clandestine route between Shetland and Norway. He was second in command at the Naval base in Shetland.
After the war he wrote several books about the war in general and of specific events in the war.
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- The Sledge Patrol: One of the greatest adventure stories of World War II (1951)
- The Shetland Bus: A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival, and Adventure (1954) later made into a movie called Shetlandsgjengen (aka. Suicide mission in the USA)
- We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance (1957) later made into a movie called Ni Liv (aka. Nine Lives)
- Nelson: The Immortal Memory (1988) written with his son Stephen Howarth. it is a comprehensive biography of Britain's most famous Admiral.
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