T. E. Lawrence — Henry Williamson

Williamson is quoted as saying that he started his career on Christmas Day, 1914, “…when, during the Truce young German soldiers told him Germany couldn’t lose because her cause was just.”

Henry Williamson by Edward Brian Seago. Image: National Portrait Gallery

Henry Williamson was the author of two fine novels, Tarka the Otter, and The Flax of Dream. He (like Hemingway, three years his junior) suffered badly during the First World War, but unlike Hemingway, who tried to hide…