Harold Pinter - About war - 161405

"I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.“

-Harold Pinter

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I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.

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