Such is Life [antikvár]

ABOUT THE AUTHORS JACK LINDSAY, born in Australia in 1900, is a significant representative of contemporary British writing. He wrote many works on Roman and English history. In his novels with a historical background such as "Men of Forty-Eight", 1948 (Manner von 1848; 1953) and "The Great Oak", 1957 (Die gro^e Eiche; 1959) he concentrated on revolutionary events and their social roots. "Betrayed Spring", 1953 (Der veruntreute Frühling; 1955) is the first of a series of books, called " Novels of the British Way". It is a large-scale picture of post-war England, a story of individual struggle and development against various backgrounds: Tyneside engineering, Yorkshire textile mills, Lancashire coal mining, and the London of the Docks. In our booklet (the title ' Phyl' is chosen by the publishers) you are introduced to some characters from " Betrayed Spring " just after the second world war in a situation when tens of thousands of families in Britain were desperately trying to realise the dream they had salvaged out of the ruins, the blood, sweat and tears of the people's bitter fight against fascism. We meet the ' squatters', people who took over houses which were standing empty but were fit for living in. They are defeated. This defeat however is not the end but the beginning of their career as fighters for the right. "Betrayed Spring" is followed by "Rising Tide", 1953, the central point of which is the international solidarity during the Dock Strike. The third novel in this series " The Moment of Choice", 1955, deals with the rising peace movement during the Korean war. Lindsay like Aldridge a ' committed writer' and known for his literary work in Britain as well as in the GDR has been a spokesman of peace, democracy and socialism since the anti-fascist struggle of the thirties.