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“He took part in another very difficult battle where a group of Nazi troops held out to the last man, and they were encircled by British troops, and the smell was appalling at the end of the battle; he talks about feeling like he’s become impure, and that people will somehow know when he gets back. So after this very, very difficult war, he came back to Britain, and was again struggling to be a writer… And then wrote this incredible book, The Day of the Triffids. Triffids combined – for the first time, really, in science fiction – the science bit, the satellites and the germ warfare and dealing with a destroyed world, with the thing we associate with John Wyndham: humanity. What happens to people?” Read more...
Amy Binns, Biographer
