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| | Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Alan Clark |
 | | But Clark, who also objected to a ban on a National Front march as the "insatiable hunger of the extreme left", not only lived, but was widely liked, and with the publication of the most candid diaries since Creevey, became something of a national treasure. |
 | | Clark, who served briefly in the Household Cavalry (Training Regiment) as a teenager, and in the Royal Auxilary Air Force in the early 1950s, was called to the Bar in 1955. |
 | | But the paradox of Clark's scholarship, and also the paradox of his political life, was contained in his first book, The Donkeys (1961), a savage assault on the British military caste of the first world war, the "red-faced majors at the base". |
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