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FEATURING GEORGE'S NEW BOOK AN UNEXPECTED LIFE

George Behrend’s memoirs 1922-2007 contain details of hie first rail trip to Switzerland, Stanley Spencer and his war paintings at Burghclere Hants,1226-32 (National Trust from 1947), the pre-war horrors of boarding schools, the refusal of the masters to accept the facts of hollowcaust concentration camps, 1935 ,meeting Benjamin Britten at Barcelona 1936 International Music Festival, also  Egypt in 1937, Rambert Ballet School with founder, Marie Rambert 1939, Hertford College, Oxford 1939-42,an undergraduate dining with the Dons (unique?) Huge troop convoy by sea, Glasgow- Durban-Suez. Egypt-Tunis with Desert 8^th Army, Algiers,Italy, Greece (Salonika),1942-5, Home finally 1946, small farming also PA to Benjamin Britten,Glyndebourne,(World Premier “Albert Herring” Opera), Amsterdam, Aldeburgh Festival Founding(sole survivor) near Lucerne 1947, Scotland 1950 much unpublished material, Venice (Turn of the Screw Opera world premiere,1954).   Move to Jersey 1956-89, PA  again, at Aldeburgh Festivals 1947-58, Met John Betjeman and E.M Forster on several occasions, also Auden, C.S.Lewis, Menuhin, many others Times 5^th Leader 1954 for first of 17 books published 1954-2008, mostly European trains Orient Express etc,, 2 airline histories. Marriage 1960 to Jeannette D’Enyer who died <metricconverterproductid1992 in>1992 in Scotland, to which we moved in 1989. Life Member Guild of Travel Writers from 1959, visits to Tangier, Morroco, Normandy, lived near Bordeaux 1976-81(second home)

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