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| website = | portaldisp = }} Harry Leslie Smith (born 25 February 1923) is a British writer and political commentator. He grew up in poverty in Yorkshire, and served in the RAF during the Second World War, later moving to Canada. After retiring, Smith began writing his memoirs and about social history. He has written four books about Britain during the Great Depression, the Second World War, and postwar austerity.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.theguardian.com/profile/harry-leslie-smith )〕 He writes for ''The Guardian'' newspaper and has made a number of public appearances in the UK (including the 2014 Labour Party conference) and Canada as recently as 2015. ==Biography== Harry Leslie Smith was born on 25 February 1923, in Barnsley, Yorkshire,〔 the son of an unemployed coal miner. His elder sister Marion died of tuberculosis, the family being unable to afford medical treatment.〔 After his father became unemployed the family moved to Bradford, then to Halifax. Smith joined the RAF in 1941 and spent several years in Hamburg, Germany as part of the allied occupation force. There he met his wife-to-be, Friede. The couple returned to Britain after he was demobilised and he worked in various jobs in Yorkshire.〔 In the 1950s they emigrated to Canada, living in Scarborough in Toronto and later in Belleville, Ontario, and had three sons. Smith made a career in the oriental carpet trade, specialising in designing and importing new designs from the Middle East, the former Soviet Bloc and Afghanistan. Friede died in 1999, and he started to write following this.〔 Since his retirement from business, Smith has been a writer of memoirs and social history. He now spends his time partly in Ontario and partly in Yorkshire.〔 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「Harry Leslie Smith」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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