Neville Spearman Armstrong (20 October 1913 – September 2008[1]) was a British soldier, literary agent, and publisher.
"[1] In October 1939, Armstrong and his wife were registered at 17 Marloes Road, Kensington; he was a journalist, she a guesthouse manager.
[1] On 21 July 1943, Armstrong was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Indian Army,[7] after revealing his origins in Ceylon, although unable to speak Urdu.
[1] Given command of a Rajputana Rifles platoon with a Bren light machine gun, he fought at the battle of Monte Cassino in the spring of 1944.
This made little money, and he next tried his hand at working as a literary agent, which led him into book publishing.
Over forty years, he published more than five hundred books, with a wide range of subjects, which included chess, cookery, espionage, fiction, flying saucers, poetry, reincarnation, sex, spiritualism, and wrestling.
[13] He shared his life with Lili Munk for more than thirty years, and in 1999, after the death of his wife, they were married in a Buddhist religious ceremony on the lawn of the house at Great Waldingfield, Suffolk, where they had lived since the late 1970s.