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 | edit source]Haswell was born in Penn, Buckinghamshire. He was educated at Little Appley Preparatory School and Winchester College.[5]
Career
[edit | edit source]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 | edit source]Books
[edit | edit source]- 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
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References
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- ^ 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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