What son of a famous writer - who would later become a minor literary figure himself - nearly machine-gunned himself to death in 1958 while with the British military in Cyprus?

lanfranco

This will be Auberon Waugh, son of Evelyn Waugh: http://www.answers.com/topic/auberon-waugh Aug 23 05, 8:16 PM

bigponder

A full yay to you, Lanfranco. He took out a lung, several ribs, his spleen (this might surprise some of his readers) and a finger in this ballistic misadventure that happened when he was about 19. Aug 23 05, 8:25 PM

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