Wrote the very fine book The Face of Battle, his first, unlike most works of military history concerned essentially with the texture of the common soldier's experience; when later in life confronted by a real battlefield (in Lebanon) he was impressed and a bit surprised by how 'physically disgusting' such places are.
Was my comic's defence correspondent for many years, appointed by the underrated modernising editor Max Hastings who dragged the terrorflag kicking and screaming into the early twentieth century.
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