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...these bare bones of history, Author Hay's book gives heroism and humanity...
...Author. Tall, soldierly, Scottish Ian Hay is one of the British writers most read by Britons. His 27 books have had total sales of over three million copies. Few authors have a better background for writing military narratives. A 36-year-old lieutenant in the famed Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, Author Hay emerged from World War I a captain, from the Battle of Loos with the Military Cross. Says Hay: "I think I was given the M.C. for being the only survivor." His First Hundred Thousand became so popular in the U.S. in 1915 that Author Hay was later sent over...
...Author Hay was a science master when readers noticed his first novel, Pip (1907), a sentimental journey into average British boyhood. In the next five years, the sales of three more boysome novels made Pip into a mere squeak. Author Hay gave up teaching for writing. His most successful novels: A Knight on Wheels, A Man's Man, A Safety Match. He hit the jackpot again with Britain's popular melofarce, Tilly of Bloomsbury...
...Hay published a popular history of the British Army (original title: The King's Service). Now called The British Infantryman, the book is a strong seller among the paper-covered Penguins...
...official job, Major General John Hay Beith, C.B.E., M.C., is not too old to write. He is working on an Army-boy-meets-Army-girl play. He also finds time to be: an officer of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, a Governor of Guy's Hospital, president of the Dramatists' Club, one of the three finest toxophilists (bow-shots) in England, a member of the Royal Company of Archers. For the duration he is living in a tiny London flat. His swank Mayfair house, he explains, is inhabited by "40 American lady warriors...