Xan Fielding

Xan Fielding, born Alexander Wallace Fielding (26 November 1918 - 19 August 1991), was a British writer and translator. He was notable for his English translations of The Planet of the Apes and The Bridge on the River Kwai.A British SOE (Special Operations Executive) agent in World War II, Fielding was captured in France by the Gestapo together with Francis Cammaerts and a third Allied officer while travelling from Apt to Seyes. The three men were, however, soon freed and thus saved from imminent execution by the remarkable intercession of the Polish SOE agent, Krystyna Skarbek.
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