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Leslie Thomas
Welsh writer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other people named Leslie Thomas, see Leslie Thomas (disambiguation).
Leslie Thomas, OBE (22 March 1931 – 6 May 2014) was a Welsh author best known for his comic novel The Virgin Soldiers.[1]
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