Jock Haswell

Major  Chetwynd John Drake "Jock" Haswell, who also wrote as George Foster (born 1919) is a British military and intelligence author and former British intelligence officer. He was "Author for Service Intelligence" 1966-1984.

Early life
Haswell was born in Penn, Buckinghamshire. He was educated at Little Appley Preparatory School and Winchester College.

Career
Haswell was trained at Sandhurst c. 1938/9 - 1941. He joined the Queen's Royal Regiment on 3 April 1941. Later in 1941 he was stationed in India, and saw local action.

He was promoted Major on 3 July 1952.

He retired from the army on 29 April 1960.

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.

Books

 * Indian file (1960)
 * Soldier on Loan (1961)
 * The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) (1967)
 * The first respectable spy : the life and times of Colquhoun Grant, Wellington's Head of Intelligence (1969)
 * James II Soldier and Sailor (1972)
 * Citizen Armies (1973)
 * British Military Intelligence London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1973)
 *  The Ardent Queen: Margaret of Anjou and the Lancastrian Heritage (1976)
 * Spies and Spymasters: A Concise History of Intelligence London: Thames & Hudson (1977)
 * The British Army: A Concise History (1980)
 * The Intelligence and Deception of the D-Day Landings London: Batsford (1979) also published in the US as D-Day : Intelligence and Deception New York
 * The Battle for Empire: A Century of Anglo-French Conflict (1983)
 * The Tangled Web 1984
 * The Tangled Web: The Art of Tactical and Strategic Deception Wendover: John Goodchild (1985)
 *  The Magnet book of spies and spying (1986)