This is the extraordinary story of the English poet Randall Swingler, godson of the Archbishop of Canterbury, communist, librettist, publisher, propagandist, poet and war-hero. "Comrade Heart" is the story of the lost world of radical Fitzrovia, from the Romantic Communism of the early 1930s to the founding of the New Left. It is a book about World War II and the story of the African and Italian campaigns, recorded uniquely through the eyes of the ordinary soldier. It is a case-study of the intellectual consequences of the Cold War in Britain, McCarthyism and Zhdanovism. It is a book about poetry and music. And it is a love story. Croft's retelling of Randall Swingler's life from comfortable childhood and public school through to crushing penury should appeal to cultural, political and literary historians.
Author Biography
Andy Croft is a writer and poet, currently working as writer-in-residence at HMP Holme House in Stockton. He lives in Middlesbrough -- .
