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Adams served in the British Army from 1940 through 1946 , during World War II. He was given a Class B Discharge to continue his studies and in 1948 he received a master's degree from Worcester College at Oxford University . He was a senior Civil Servant who worked as an Assistant Secretary for the Department Of Agriculture , later part of the Department Of The Environment , from 1948 to 1974 . Since {Link without Title} , following publication of his second novel Shardik, he has been a full-time author. He originally began telling the story of '' Watership Down '' to his two daughters Juliet and Rosamund, and they insisted he publish it as a book. It took two years to write and was rejected by thirteen publishers. When '' Watership Down '' was finally published, it quickly became a huge success on both sides of the Atlantic, selling over a million copies in record time in both the United Kingdom and the United States . ''Watership Down'' has become a Modern Classic and won the Carnegie Medal in 1972. To date, Adam's best-known work has sold over 50 million copies world-wide, earning him more than all his other books put together. He also contested the 1983 General Election , standing as an ''Independent Conservative'' in the Spelthorne constituency on a platform of opposition to Fox Hunting . He now lives, with his wife, within 10 miles of his birthplace and his latest novel will be published this year (2006). BOOKS
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