Blindfold Games by Alan Ross (1986)

Blindfold Games was the first volume of Alan Ross’s autobiography and begins in Bengal, where he was born, and ends in Germany in 1946 when the author was twenty-four. It takes in his childhood in India, his schooldays in England, his time at Oxford, and, most hauntingly, his experiences on the Arctic convoys during the Second World War. He survived: very many of his friends were killed. Condition: fine.