About the Author

George Millar DSO MC was born in 1910. He read architecture at Cambridge, but became a journalist. During the Second World War he served initially with the Rifle Brigade, escaped from a German POW camp, and went on to work with the French Resistance, for which he was awarded the _Legion d'Honneur_ and the _Croix de Guerre_. After the war he farmed in Dorset and explored Europe with his wife Isabel, in a succession of classic yachts. George Millar died in 2005.