First part of a 1983 interview with Peter Kemp for the Imperial War Museum. This section covers his time in Albania helping the partisans.
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Peter Kemp (1913-1993) was an English writer, soldier, and journalist who fought in both The Spanish Civil War and World War II.
Kemp studied at Cambridge to become a lawyer in the 1930s when he heard about atrocities committed by The Republican faction in the Spanish Civil War, which was enough to convince him to put his education on hold and to fight for The Nationalist as a foreign volunteer. He fought in Battle of Belchite, was later severely injured in battle, and was able to meet with Francisco Franco.
After The Spanish Civil War, Kemp then joined the British Special Operations Executive being trained as a Commando during World War II. He fought with resistance groups in Albania, France, and Poland in Europe, was imprisoned by the NKVD, and was later released back to the British where he was then sent to South East Asia in the last days of the war.
He later worked as an insurance salesmen and then decided to get into writing. He worked as a journalist and was present to cover events like the 1956 Hungarian Uprising, The war in Belgian Congo, and numerous other events in South America. He later wrote 4 books about his time as a soldier; Mine Were of Trouble (1957), No Colours or Crest (1958), Alms for Oblivion (1962), and The Thorns of Memory (1990)
