Background
Van der Vat grew up in Nazi-German occupied Holland.
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Dan Francis
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University of Durham.
Career
He went to the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School in London, and then was a student at Street Cuthbert"s Society, Durham University from 1957 to 1960, graduating with a Bachelor in Classics. He has written fourteen books He then became a graduate trainee on The Journal, Newcastle upon Tyne, later joining the Daily Mail in Manchester and returning to Newcastle as its regional chief reporter.
He was recruited by The Sunday Times in 1965 and transferred to The Times in 1967.
He left in 1981 and joined The Guardian in 1982 as chief foreign leader-writer He still writes obituaries for The Guardian.
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Netherlands