With Gun and Gown

Norman Friskney's experiences as a young man were defined by two environments which could scarcely offer a greater contrast - the halls of Oxford University, where his studies were interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War, and the battlefields of southern Italy, where he served as a young officer in the Eighth Army and, amongother more sober achievements, accidentally broke Mussolini's bed. Following his return to Oxford and subsequent graduation he embarked on a teaching life, b...