No Ordinary Dad

Born amidst the turmoil of the First World War, my father's life was shaped by the fires of revolution, war, and ideological conviction. From his early days in Canada to the hallowed halls of Glasgow University, where he embraced Communism, to the battlefields of the Spanish Civil War and the shipyards of Glasgow, where he became a voice for the working class-his journey was anything but ordinary. He fought in World War II as a paratrooper and later found himself on the run from those he once al