Time At War

Nicholas Mosley, son of Oswald Mosley and his first wife, is an admired novelist, most famous for Accident, filmed by Joseph Losey. Although he has previously published an autobiography, Nicholas Mosley has hitherto avoided writing about his WWII experience, in which his tangled relationship with his father Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the British fascist movement, plays a major part.

'Time At War' shows Mosley coming of age as a young officer in the forging house of war and being despatched as part of the Rifle Brigade to join the allies as they fight their way up to Italy. At one point he ignominiously loses most of his platoon. Eventually he leads his men to capture a strategic farmhouse not far from Monte Cassino and wins the MC. Mosley gives his account against the backdrop of being the son of Britain's fascist leader who was imprisoned with his second wife (Diana Mitford) in Brixton jail not long after the outbreak of the war.