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Hammond Innes
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Hammond Innes was born in Horsham, Sussex, of Scottish descent. He was educated at Cranbrook School, Kent, and graduated in From to he worked as a staff member of the Financial News (later Financial Times), and then served in the Royal Artillery () before becoming a fulltime writer.
In he married Dorothy Mary Lange. She died in Innes's first novel, THE DOPPELGANGER, appeared in It was followed by three other works - all these early books Innes later rejected, not because of the leftist views he infiltrated between the lines, but because he considered them more or less clumsy.
1982 novel by hammond innes biography
In appeared WRECKERS MUST BREATHE and THE TROJAN HORSE, published by Collins. Innes began writing The Trojan Horse just after the Russian invasion of Finland in A month after completing the book he joined the army, and was sent overseas.
In Innes published a war novel, ATTACK ALARM, which was the only story of the Battle of Britain written on a gunside