which [Ella] van Heemstra sold on the black market for penicillin to treat the seriously ill [Audrey] Hepburn.After the war, Burn reported for The Times from Eastern Europe before moving to Wales, where he put his socialist principles into practice by running a mussel-farming cooperative--it was a financial disaster--and wrote novels, nonfiction books, poetry and an autobiography, "Turned Toward the Sun."
[James] Dorrian said that Burn rejected orthodox communism but kept his left-wing views to the end. Of all his achievements, he was proudest of his poetry.
from The Associated Press: British writer and commando Micky Burn dies at 97
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