Jules Roy(1907-2000)
- Writer
A Free French officer during the Second World War, flying on bomber
raids out of West Yorkshire, Roy continued to serve in the French
forces until 1953. He then retired (with the rank of colonel) in
protest against the French savageries in the Indo-Chinese war. Having
already published a prize-winning memoir about his war experiences as
well as poetry, he became a journalist and playwright as well. One of
his great achievements is a sequence of six novels under the general
title of "Les Chevaux du Soleil".