John Colvin

John Colvin's career in the Diplomatic Service in Oslo, Vienna, Kuala Lumpur, Hanoi and London among others, provided him with continual contact with the totalitarians of his generation. His subsequent books include TWICE AROUND THE WORLD on North Vietnam and Mongolia, NOT ORDINARY MEN on the British defeat of the Japanese at Kohima and NOMONHAN on the Mongolian/Manchurian frontier, where Zhukov beat the Japanese.