Alexander Baron

Alexander Baron was a British novelist whose war fiction is among the finest and most unflinching accounts of the Second World War in English literature. His debut novel, From the City, From the Plough, draws on his own experience as an infantryman during the D-Day landings and the campaign in Normandy to create a raw, honest portrait of ordinary soldiers facing the terror and chaos of combat. Baron went on to write acclaimed novels about post-war London life. His audiobooks bring his vivid, compassionate wartime writing to new generations of listeners, offering some of the most authentic fiction about the experience of ordinary soldiers in the Second World War.