Henry Williamson was a prolific bestselling author and prominent member of the British Union of Fascists. He was best known for his 1927 novel Tarka the Otter, inspired by his experience raising an otter cub in his youth. He became a good friend of WW1 hero T.E. Lawrence (better known as Lawrence of Arabia) and was one of the last people to speak with Lawrence before his death in 1935. That same year, Williamson visited the NSDAP congress in Nuremberg. This lead to his gaining a great admiration for Adolf Hitler, so much so that he volunteered to fly to Germany in the hopes of personally dissuading Hitler from war on the eve of WW2. Oswald Mosley eventually convinced him that the plan would be in vain. He and Mosley would fall out after the war, with Williamson leaving politics altogether, although he maintained his belief in National Socialism throughout his life and wrote articles for Mosley's magazine, The European. A film adaptation of Tarka was released in 1979, two years after Williamson passed away.