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James Aldridge (Harold Edward James Aldridge) was born on 10 July, 1918 in White Hills, Victoria, Australia, is an Australian-British writer and journalist. Discover James Aldridge's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 97 years old?

Popular As Harold Edward James Aldridge
Occupation Writer and journalist
Age 97 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 10 July, 1918
Birthday 10 July
Birthplace White Hills, Victoria, Australia
Date of death 23 February, 2015
Died Place London, England, U.K.
Nationality Australia

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1918

Harold Edward James Aldridge (10 July 1918 – 23 February 2015) was an Australian-British writer and journalist.

His World War II despatches were published worldwide and he was the author of over 30 books, both fiction and non-fiction works, including war and adventure novels and books for children.

Aldridge was born in White Hills, a suburb of Bendigo, Victoria.

1920

By the mid-1920s the Aldridge family had moved to Swan Hill, and many of his Australian stories are based on his life growing up there.

He studied at the London School of Economics.

1935

He returned to Australia and worked for The Sun News-Pictorial in Melbourne from 1935 to 1938.

1938

In 1938 Aldridge moved to London, which remained his base until his death in 2015.

During the Second World War, Aldridge served in the Middle-East as a war correspondent, reporting on the Axis invasions of Greece and Crete.

1940

The novel centred on a fictional young British Royal Air Force pilot named John Quayle who flies obsolete Gladiator biplanes for the true-life 80 Squadron against the larger and more powerful Axis air-forces over Greece, Crete and North Africa 1940–41.

The novel received considerable praise from reviewers including the Miami News which said "...so graphic are the descriptive passages that the reader tastes the dust and feels the insect stings in the Egyptian heat".

American critic Herbert Faulkner West stated that the book "showed real promise" and ranked it the best of his wartime novels.

1942

Based on his experiences, he wrote his first novel Signed with Their Honour and the book was published in both Britain and the United States in 1942, becoming an immediate best-seller.

1943

An attempt in 1943 to make a film based on the novel was abandoned when two Gloster Gladiator biplanes were destroyed in a mid-air collision during filming at an RAF base at Shropshire in the UK.

1944

His second novel The Sea Eagle (1944), which centred on Australian soldiers during and after the fall of Crete in 1941, was also successful but received less favourable reviews than his first book.

American critic N. L. Rothman, however, writing in the Saturday Review, praised the novel for its "timeless-ness" and the high quality of its prose.

Aldridge's early novels were heavily influenced by the literary mannerisms of US author Ernest Hemingway.

For The Sea Eagle, Aldridge won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.

1949

Aldridge's most successful and most widely published novel The Diplomat was released in 1949.

An espionage and political drama set amidst the Azerbaijan Revolution in Iran, the novel received mixed reviews.

The Anglo-Soviet Journal called it "absorbing and impressive".

An American review for Kirkus, however, while acknowledging the book's premise to be promising and original, labelled it as slow, repetitive and awkward in style.

1950

His 1950 novel The Hunter proved that Aldridge was willing to attempt a variety of genres and settings.

A drama about fur-hunters living in the wilds of the Ontario bushlands in Canada, the novel was, according to Walter O'Meara in the Saturday Review, written in a "flat direct prose that just when you decide to be bored straightens you up with an incisive and revealing word or phrase."

He went on to say it was "a sincere and occasionally penetrating study of man against the eternal odds".

1954

Aldridge's next book appeared in 1954, a novel entitled Heroes of the Empty View, depicting an English hero-adventurer in the Middle-East in the vein of T. E. Lawrence and Charles Gordon.

Mervyn Jones writing in Tribune magazine criticised the novel's shortage of action, the un-convincing lead character and the book's lack of passion.

Jones said that Aldridge had "impressive gifts" as a novelist but needed to find a subject that "really fires him".

The novel got a better response from Walter Havighurst, writing in the Saturday Review, who called it "a provocative novel...written with authoritative knowledge of men, machines and politics".

A review for Kirkus Reviews praised the novel as being "perhaps his most important work, and implicit in its picture of the conflicts, the contradictions, the dilemmas of the Arabs....There is a wider view of the battle for freedom in a world where a machine-ruled society is becoming the norm".

1957

Aldridge returned to the Second World War with his next novel, I Wish He Would Not Die (1957), a drama set in the Desert Air Force in Egypt.

Kirkus Reviews labelled it as an effective work, dealing with "men living under stress and with a heightened sense of humanity present the issues that haunt them..."

1961

Aldridge's direct experiences of Egypt, where he lived for much of the Post-War era, both as a Foreign Correspondent and later as a novelist, inspired the 1961 novel The Last Exile, set amidst the turbulence of the Suez Crisis in 1957.

The novel, one of Aldridge's most lengthy and most ambitious, drew a less favourable response than previous works.

Hal Lehrman, writing in the Saturday Review, labelled it "a swollen bore".

1962

Aldridge continued to draw inspiration from topical events and the Cold War tensions between the East and West gave him the subject for his next novel A Captive in the Land (1962), set in the frozen wastes of the Arctic where an English scientist rescues the sole survivor of a crashed Russian aircraft.

Like all of his politically themed works, Aldridge attempted to explore all viewpoints and portray the "grey" area in-between opposing forces and beliefs.

In this case, the Englishman is initially viewed by his fellow Westerners as a hero but later he is treated with increasing suspicision due to his efforts to allow the Russian to be freed.

W. G. Rogers, writing in the Saturday Review, praised the novel thus: "...the moral adventure here is more challenging and better and faster reading than the physical. But all the way its a gripping story that gets under your skin and stays there."

1988

The book proved to be one of Aldridge's most successful, remaining in print until 1988.

1993

The novel was made into a film of the same name in 1993.