nepalnepal — Micky Burn, a British journalist, novelist and World War II commando who flirted with fascism, embraced communism and helped save the life of Audrey Hepburn, has died at the age of 97.

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Michael "Micky" Burn, a Nazi-sympathizing British journalist in the 1930s who, having come to regret his allegiances, became an army commando during World War II and then a novelist, poet and mussel ...

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Micky Burn, a British journalist, novelist and World War II commando who flirted with fascism, embraced communism and helped save the life of Audrey Hepburn, has died at the age of 97. Burn died Sept.