Easy warriors

by Anthony Armstrong

147 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1932

About the author

Anthony Armstrong was a British author who flourished from 1924 to 1976 and was known for writing in several literary genres, including historical, humorous, crime, and country novels; humorous short stories; drama; non-fiction works; and film and radio scripts.

(George) Anthony Armstrong Willis was born on January 2, 1897, in Esquimalt, British Columbia. He spent the majority of his life in England. He married Francis Monica Sealy in 1926. He was educated at Uppingham and Trinity College, Cambridge. During the years 1915-1925, he served in the Royal Air Force. In 1940 he founded the R.A.F. training magazine Tee Emm, and served as its editor until its demise in 1946.

He began writing for Punch in 1924. From the 1930s through the 1960s he wrote several novels and also many humorous works and plays, some of which were adapted for radio. His articles and short stories were published in such periodicals as New Yorker, County Fair, Strand, Daily Mail, Evening News, and Sunday Chronicle. He received the award "Order of the British Empire" in 1944. He died February 10, 1976.

Reviews

[Simon Collier · Rating 5 out of 5]

'AA' wrote primarily for Punch from the twenties on, his main work was from the thirties to the fifties. He mainly wrote humorous articles and books with some mainstream fiction, childrens stories and plays for theatre, one of his later stories was filmed as The Man who Haunted Himself with Roger Moore. I inherited my copy of Warriors Paraded from my grandfather a professional soldier in the thirties who reckoned that it was not only the funniest thing he ever read but also the only thing that ever truly captured life in the peacetime army. In 1942 'AA' published a companion volume 'Warriors at War' which I eventually tracked down in Australia, it too is hilarious

[Neil · Rating 2 out of 5]

This third collection of Anthony Armstrong's military sketches is enlivened by the illustrations of cartoonist G. L. Stampa but otherwise it's more of the same, although the emphasis between this and the first has shifted to the officers from the enlisted men.