Raymond Williams A Warrior's Tale Author:Dai Smith Using a rich array of material from Raymond Williams's hitherto unused personal papers - juvenilia, diaries, letters, unpublished novels and stories, notebooks, work drafts and fragments - Dai Smith takes us through Williams' formative years on the Welsh Border as the son of a railway signalman, on to Cambridge in 1939 and War service in Normand... more »y, to show in detail how the making of Culture and Society (1958) and the writing of his novel Border Country (1960) were all part of his conceptual breakthrough during the 1950s.« less