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.
Where the Lion Trod (1960)
An account of the legacy of the British Raj in India, not long after independence.