a daughter – was dissolved. In 1955 he married his second wife, Ranjana Sidhanta (1924–2015). Bibliography In addition to numerous articles in Marxist journals, Ash is the author of the following books: Fiction The Lotus in the Sky (1961), London: Hutchinson, Choice of Arms (1962), London: Hutchinson, The Longest Way Round (1963), London: Hutchinson, Ride a Paper Tiger (1969), New York: Walker, Take-Off (1970), New York: Walker, Incorporated (1980), Brighton: Harvester Press, , Right Side Up (1984), London: Howard Baker, , Bold Riot. G. Mann, 1992. , What's the Big Idea (993), Bristol: George Mann, But My Fist is Free (1997), Maidstone Mann, , Rise Like Lions (1998), Maidstone Mann, , Heroes In The Evening Mist (2018), New Internationalist, Non-fiction Marxism and Moral Concepts (1964), New York: Monthly Review Press. Pickaxe and Rifle : the Story of the Albanian People (1974), London: Howard Baker , Morals and Politics : the Ethics of Revolution (1977), London/Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul A Red Square, The Autobiography of an Unconventional Revolutionary (1978), London: Howard Baker, Marxist Morality (1988), London: Howard Baker Press Ltd, Under the Wire: The Wartime Memoir of a Spitfire Pilot, Legendary Escape Artist, Cooler King (with Brendan Foley) (2005), hardback Bantam Press, Workers' Politics, the Ethics of Socialism (1998; 2007), Aakar Books, India, , About William Ash's novels Doug Nicholls, Class Writer, An Introduction to the Novels of William Ash (2002), Coventry: Bread Books, Biographies External links William Ash's radio work for the BBC References 1917 births 2014 deaths Writers from Dallas University of Texas at Austin alumni Royal Canadian Air Force officers Canadian World War II pilots World War II prisoners of war held by Germany American emigrants to England Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom Members of the Order of the British Empire Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford British Marxists Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist) members British autobiographers British male novelists 20th-century British novelists British non-fiction writers British radio writers BBC people British trade union leaders Canadian prisoners of war in World War II Canadian escapees British escapees Escapees from German detention Royal Canadian Air Force personnel of World War II Male non-fiction writers Hoxhaists Canadian expatriates in England American expatriates in England