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Daniel Francis Jeroen van der Vat (28 October 1939 – 9 May 2019)[1] was a journalist, writer and military historian, with a focus on naval history.[2]

Born in Alkmaar, North Holland, Van der Vat grew up in the 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.[3]

He then became a graduate trainee on The Journal, a newspaper based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and later joined the Daily MailinManchester and returned 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 after he had 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.[1] He served as the publication's chief foreign leader-writer before he left the title in 1988 to write books. He continued to write obituaries for The Guardian.[1]

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  1. ^ a b c Cecil, Desmond (20 May 2019). "Dan van der Vat obituary". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 20 May 2019. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
  • ^ "Dan van der Vat, biography". Dan van der Vat. Retrieved 15 December 2010.
  • ^ "Dan van der Vat". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
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