Brian Lunn married a second time to his first wife's sister-in-law, Belinda Duncan a life-long friend of Joyce and Beckett.
[3] Its highlight is Brian's description of a mental breakdown he had while serving in Mesopotamia in the 11th Black Watch.
The onset of his breakdown was described as follows: 'Men and beasts passed through the haze, black outlines; a troop of mules with Indian driver was a stately silhouette; shambling after them a bucket-carrying menial with tousled turban and bedraggled shirt flapping round flexed knees was an immortal grotesque, raised above the plane of human need and anxiety.
'...I looked along the river banks - tents and incinerators, horses and mules, soldiers, native and European, a complex of endeavour in an enterprise as unreal as all the day-to-day needs and anxieties and discomforts, ambitions and humiliations of each individual, were real.'
His other books include a biography of Martin Luther, an "autobiography" of Satan which he "collated" in collaboration with William Gerhardie,[4] a travel guide to Belgium, and a history of the Rothschild family.