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

Haswell was born in Penn, Buckinghamshire. He was educated at Little Appley Preparatory School and Winchester College.[5]

Career

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

Books
  • 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
  • Combined Arms Center (September 1976). "The need to know". Military Review. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

References
  1. Joseph F. Clarke (1977). Pseudonyms. BCA. p. 63.
  2. "Trove".
  3. Books and Bookmen. Hansom Books. 1976.
  4. International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004. 2003. p. 238. ISBN 1857431790.
  5. The Author's & Writer's Who's who. Burke's Peerage. 1971. p. 366.
  6. 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.
  7. "No. 35077". The London Gazette (Supplement). 18 July 1952. p. 955.
  8. 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.
  9. "No. 39600". The London Gazette (Supplement). 18 July 1952. p. 3867.
  10. "No. 42020". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 April 1960. p. 3024.
  11. Clyve Jones (1987). A Biography of the Works Published by Geoffrey Holmes. pp. xvi. ISBN 978-0-907628-89-7. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  12. Jock Haswell
  13. R. T. Foster (11 March 1973). "King Who Lost the Battle of the Boyne". Sydney Morning Herald. p. 118.
  14. "Book Reviews, Sites, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction".
  15. Book Review, Boulton, William N., The Hartford Courant, Feb 26, 1978.
  16. Spies & Spymasters: A Concise History of Intelligence (book review,) Chicago Tribune, Oct 16, 1977
  17. Rings in the Tree of Espionage (book review,)Kirsch, Robert, Los Angeles Times, Oct 14, 1977.


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