The novelist Olivia Manning married R.D. “Reggie” Smith in August 1939, just weeks before the Second World War began with the Nazi invasion of Poland.
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Olivia Manning, Married to the War
Olivia Manning
Underrated and underread British novelist Olivia Manning didn’t know she would be devoting her life to dramatizing WWII. By Lauren Elkin.
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