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George Reid Millar DSO MC (19 September 1910 – 15 January 2005) was a Scottish journalist, soldier, author and farmer. Millar was awarded the Military Cross (MC) in early 1944 for escaping from Germany while a prisoner of war and making it back to England, which he wrote about in his 1946 book ''Horned Pigeon''. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) and the French ''Légion d'Honneur'' and the ''Croix de Guerre avec Palmes'' for his service as an SOE officer in France in 1944.〔 He recorded his experiences fighting behind the lines with the local Resistance in his 1945 book ''Maquis''; this book, his most well-known, belongs with others written by British servicemen who fought behind enemy lines including ''Ill Met by Moonlight'' by W. Stanley Moss, ''Eastern Approaches'' by Fitzroy Maclean and ''Seven Pillars of Wisdom'' by T. E. Lawrence. ==Early life== Millar was born at Bog Hall〔 p11〕 in Baldernock, Stirlingshire, the younger son of Thomas Andrew Millar. Millar's father was a self-made architect and builder; his mother's family owned property in Glasgow. His father died when he was 11 years old. Millar, known as "Josh", was educated at Loretto School. He showed his courage and independence when he joined his boarding school aged 12 when he fought off the bullying of a 17-year-old student, knocking the older boy unconscious. While at school he was happily initiated into fox hunting which became a lifelong passion. Between school and university he spent some formative months in France. He read architecture at St John's College, Cambridge, achieving a first in his prelims but a third in his finals. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Millar (writer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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