Dan van der Vat, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Dan van der Vat

British historian and journalist

Date of Birth: 28-Oct-1939

Place of Birth: Alkmaar, North Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 09-May-2019

Profession: writer, historian, journalist

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Dan van der Vat

  • Daniel Francis Jeroen van der Vat (28 October 1939 – 9 May 2019) was an journalist, writer and military historian, with a focus on naval history.Born in Alkmaar, North Holland, Van der Vat grew up in the Nazi-German occupied Netherlands.
  • He attended the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School in London, and then was a student at St Cuthbert's Society, Durham University from 1957 to 1960, graduating with a BA in Classics.
  • He wrote fourteen books.He then became a graduate trainee on The Journal, a newspaper based in 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 was a foreign correspondent for ten years, opening The Times bureau in South Africa, but was later expelled from the country, having been described by the apartheid-era authorities as being a "pernicious liberal".
  • Instead he became the newspaper's bureau chief in Germany, but after Rupert Murdoch acquired The Times in 1981, he left and joined The Guardian the next year.
  • He served as the publication's chief foreign leader-writer before leaving the title in 1988 to write books.
  • He continued to write obituaries for The Guardian.

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