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John Verney

(Sir John Verney)

Author, Illustrator, Editor, Compiler

(1913 - 1993)

Sir John Verney (September 30, 1913 -- February 2, 1993) was a writer, painter and illustrator. He was a film director’s assistant and baronet, a Yeomanry officer and parachutist, a traveller and a lover of most things British. He was master of the ludicrous, inventor of the ‘Dodo-Pad’ and author of one of the best memoirs of the Second World War, Going to the Wars.



Bibliography

Verney Abroad (1954)

Essays and cartoons about the author’s adventures abroad.

Author(s): John Verney
Illustrator(s): John Verney

Where the Lion Trod (1960)

An account of the legacy of the British Raj in India, not long after independence.

Author(s): Gordon Shepherd
Illustrator(s): John Verney

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