Jock Haswell
Major Chetwynd John Drake "Jock" Haswell (18 July 1919 – 21 January 2018[1]), who also wrote as George Foster,[2] was a British military and intelligence author and former British intelligence officer.[3] He was "Author for Service Intelligence" 1966–1984.[4]
Early life
[edit]Haswell was born in Penn, Buckinghamshire. He was educated at Little Appley Preparatory School and Winchester College.[5]
Career
[edit]Haswell was trained at Sandhurst c. 1938/9 - 1941.[6] He joined the Queen's Royal Regiment[6] on 3 April 1941.[7] Later in 1941 he was stationed in India, and saw local action.[8] He was promoted Major on 3 July 1952,[9] and retired from the army on 29 April 1960.[10]
Haswell's later work was mostly writing, continuing a thread from his military and intelligence work. He self-deprecatingly described his books as "holes held together with string". Nonetheless, his James II, for example, was reviewed in the Times of 29 July 1972 by Geoffrey Homes.[11]
He died on 21 January 2018 at the age of 98.[12]
Bibliography
[edit]Books
[edit]- Indian File (Michael Joseph, 1960) - as 'George Foster'
- Soldier on Loan (Michael Joseph, 1961) - as 'George Foster'
- The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) (Hamish Hamilton, 1967)
- The First Respectable Spy : The Life and Times of Colquhoun Grant, Wellington's Head of Intelligence (Hamish Hamilton, 1969)
- James II Soldier and Sailor (Hamish Hamilton, 1972)[13][14]
- Citizen Armies (Peter Davies, 1973)
- British Military Intelligence (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973)
- The British Army: A Concise History (Thames & Hudson, 1975)
- The Ardent Queen: Margaret of Anjou and the Lancastrian Heritage (Peter Davies, 1976)
- The Battle for Empire: A Century of Anglo-French Conflict (Cassell, 1976)
- Spies and Spymasters: A Concise History of Intelligence (Thames & Hudson, 1977)[15][16][17]
- The Intelligence and Deception of the D-Day Landings (Batsford, 1979) also published in the US as D-Day : Intelligence and Deception, New York
- The Tangled Web: The Art of Tactical and Strategic Deception (J. Goodchild, 1985)
- The Magnet Book of Spies and Spying (Methuen, 1986)
Articles
[edit]- Combined Arms Center (September 1976). "The need to know". Military Review. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
References
[edit]- ^ Joseph F. Clarke (1977). Pseudonyms. BCA. p. 63.
- ^ "Trove".
- ^ Books and Bookmen. Hansom Books. 1976.
- ^ International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004. 2003. p. 238. ISBN 1857431790.
- ^ The Author's & Writer's Who's who. Burke's Peerage. 1971. p. 366.
- ^ a b Michael Lowry (19 January 2009). Fighting Through to Kohima: A Memoir of War in India and Burma. Casemate Publishers. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-84415-802-7.
- ^ "No. 35077". The London Gazette (Supplement). 18 July 1952. p. 955.
- ^ Michael Lowry (19 January 2009). Fighting Through to Kohima: A Memoir of War in India and Burma. Casemate Publishers. p. 45. ISBN 978-1-84415-802-7.
- ^ "No. 39600". The London Gazette (Supplement). 18 July 1952. p. 3867.
- ^ "No. 42020". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 April 1960. p. 3024.
- ^ Clyve Jones (1987). A Biography of the Works Published by Geoffrey Holmes. A&C Black. pp. xvi. ISBN 978-0-907628-89-7.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ Jock Haswell
- ^ R. T. Foster (11 March 1973). "King Who Lost the Battle of the Boyne". Sydney Morning Herald. p. 118.
- ^ "Book Reviews, Sites, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction".
- ^ Book Review, Boulton, William N., The Hartford Courant, Feb 26, 1978.
- ^ Spies & Spymasters: A Concise History of Intelligence (book review,) Chicago Tribune, Oct 16, 1977
- ^ Rings in the Tree of Espionage (book review,)Kirsch, Robert, Los Angeles Times, Oct 14, 1977.
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