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name: Richard Collier
about: British historian, was born in London, England in 1924. He joined the Royal Air Force at eighteen after that, as a war correspondent, he traveled throughout the Far East. He has worked on numerous British and American magazines and has written more than half a dozen books about the Second World War. Few of them are:The sands of Dunkirk, 1961, Duce! A biography of Benito Mussolini, 1971, and The war in the desert, 1977.