Dykes, Ken

The author was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK, and is still living in that county. At the age of four in 1940 he was, with his parents and elder brother 'bombed out' during WWII, at 11 he won a scholarship to grammar school, subsequently worked on a farm, as a welder in a factory and at an atomic weapons research establishment before becoming a journalist. He stayed in this career for the next 40 years, rising to become Editor of his local newspaper before three open heart operations forced him to retire, since when he has written several books and features for national and specialist maga...