George RudeGeorge Rude was one of the twentieth century's most innovative historians. His work has been translated into Spanish, German, Japanese, Italian, Portugese and Hungarian. He was born in Oslo in 1910 to a Norwegian father and a Scottish mother, and, afer serving as a fireman in London during the Blitz and teaching in a variety of London schools, held professorships at Adelaide and Flinders universities in Australia and then at Concordia University in Montreal. He died in 1993. Read More Read Less