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Robert Kee


Born
in Calcutta, India
October 05, 1919

Died
January 11, 2013

Genre
History, Memoir


Robert Kee, CBE was a broadcaster, journalist and writer, known for his historical works on World War II and Ireland.

He was educated at Stowe School, Buckingham, and read history at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was a pupil, then a friend, of the historian A.J.P. Taylor.

During World War II he served in the Royal Air Force as a bomber pilot. His Hampden was shot down by flak one night while on a mine-laying operation off the coast of German-occupied Holland. He was imprisoned and spent three years in a German POW camp. This gave him material for his first book A Crowd Is Not Company. It was first published as a novel in 1947 but was later revealed to be an autobiography. It recounts his experiences as a prisoner of war and his various e ...more

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Average rating: 4.02 · 1,424 ratings · 120 reviews · 36 distinct works • Similar authors
The Green Flag, Volumes 1 - 3
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 403 ratings — published 1972 — 10 editions
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1939: The World We Left Behind
4.08 avg rating — 359 ratings — published 1984 — 6 editions
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Ireland: A History
3.88 avg rating — 192 ratings — published 1980 — 21 editions
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1945: The World We Fought F...
4.20 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 1985 — 11 editions
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A Crowd Is Not Company
4.01 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 1982 — 21 editions
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The Most Distressful Country
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1972 — 6 editions
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The Bold Fenian Men
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1972 — 7 editions
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Trial and Error: The Maguir...
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Ourselves Alone
4.02 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1972 — 6 editions
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The Laurel and the Ivy: The...
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Series by Robert Kee

The Most Distressful Country The Bold Fenian Men Ourselves Alone The Green Flag, Volumes 1 - 3
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“Socialist theory had been developed by Robert Owen in Britain long before Karl Marx,”
― Robert Kee, 1945: The World We Fought For
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“If you get World War Three it might mean the end of the human race – and if we haven’t got the guts to stop it we deserve such an end.”
― Robert Kee, 1945: The World We Fought For
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“The way things looked before later events made them look different. And this is as much a part of history as the way things actually were.”
― Robert Kee
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