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Jock Lewes : co-founder of the SAS / by John Lewes ; with a foreword by the Rt. Hon. The Earle Jellicoe.

Lewes, John. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 0850527430
  • ISBN: 9780850527438
  • Physical Description: xix, 266 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Leo Cooper, 2000.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-258) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Part 1 Childood and Youth in Sydney, Australia -- Chapter 1 Parent and Child 7 -- Chapter 2 Youth 20 -- Part 2 Manhood in Oxford and Europe -- Chapter 3 Student 41 -- Chapter 4 River Man 55 -- Chapter 5 Traveller 82 -- Chapter 6 Propagandist 106 -- Part 3 Maturity in the Middle East -- Chapter 7 Faith, Love and The Phoney War 131 -- Chapter 8 Pioneer 161 -- Chapter 9 Tobruk 176 -- Chapter 10 Special Air Servant 191 -- Chapter 11 Baptism of Fire 214 -- Chapter 12 Cry Havoc! 231 -- Jock's family, friends and colleagues during and after the war 250.
Subject: Lewes, Jock, 1913-1941.
Great Britain. Army. Special Air Service > Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Commando operations > Great Britain.
Soldiers > Great Britain > Biography.
Genre: Biographies.