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Michael Foot, the son of a soldier, was born in England in 1919. He was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, and joined the British Army on the outbreak of the Second World War. A member of the Royal Artillery and fought in France during the later stages of the war and in 1945 won the H for service with the French Resistance in Brittany.

After the war Foot taught at Oxford University for eight years before becoming Professor of Modern History at Manchester University. He has written several books about the Second World War including Men in Uniform (1961), SOE in France (1966), Resistance (1976) and Six Faces of Courage (1978).

 

 

 

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