Alan Alexander Milne (18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an
English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear
Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems. Milne was a
noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success
of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work. Milne joined the
British Army in World War I and served as an officer in the
Royal Warwickshire Regiment and later, after a debilitating
illness, the Royal Corps of Signals. After the war, he wrote a
denunciation of war titled Peace With Honour (1934), which he
retracted somewhat with 1940's War With Honour. During World War
II, Milne was one of the most prominent critics of English
humour writer P. G. Wodehouse, who was captured at his country
home in France by the Nazis and imprisoned for a year. Wodehouse
made radio broadcasts about his internment, which were broadcast
from Berlin. Although the lighthearted broadcasts made fun of
the Germans, Milne accused Wodehouse of committing an act of
near treason by cooperati