Also I love that Evelyn Waugh (BFFs with Christopher Isherwood, author of such classics as The Loved One and Brideshead Revisited) joined the British commandos (as in the ultra elite unit) during WWII as a pudgy middle aged dude and managed to get through training and the war fueled by pure burning anti-fascist rage
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