Bill Ash: Under the Wire

i went to the launch of Under the Wire: http://www.underthewire.co.uk , Bill Ash's new book co-written with my friend who was once unwise enough to give me a job, Brendan Foley.
It was a thoroughly enjoyable evening, with speeches by Jim Corrigal, president of the National Union of Journalists, the two authors, and a song, Lili Marlene, from Brendan's fiancée Shelly.
The book is wonderful. Bill tells his story with characteristic wit. I knew it in outline from his earlier autobiography, A Red Square, but there is much more detail here and whoever did the research has found some remarkable and hard-to-find pictures.
The remarkable thing is that Bill never rested on the laurels of war. He went on to head the BBC's radio drama department, to write a number of novels and a definitive work on Marxism and moral philosophy. For an introduction to Bill's fiction see: Nicholls, Doug Class Writer: An Introduction to the Novels of William Ash Coventry: Bread Books, 2002 I may have a stab at a bibliography (though he will keep writing new books).