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1940s ink drawing of john sommerfield 13 august 1991 oxfordshire london british john sommerfield 25 june 1908 john sommerfield ink drawing late 1940s.jpg john sommerfield
 jack hugo sommerfeld writer , communist , veteran of spanish civil war
john sommerfield

john sommerfield -lrb- 25 june 1908 -- 13 august 1991 -rrb- was a british writer and left-wing activist known for his influential novel `` may day '' , which fictionalised a communist upheaval in 1930s london .
sommerfield volunteered to fight in the spanish civil war and wrote one of the first combatant accounts of that conflict .
he later served in the royal air force in world war ii .
