biography
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Jackson, Sir William (Godfrey Fothergill)
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| lived:
| (1917–99)
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| biography:
| British soldier and historian. He studied at Shrewsbury School, the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and Cambridge, and was commissioned in the Royal Engineers (1937). After service in World War 2 he held several senior posts before becoming military historian in the cabinet office (1977–8, 1982–7), and was governor and commander-in-chief at Gibraltar (1978–82). His publications on military historical and strategic subjects include Attack in the West (1953), Seven Roads to Moscow (1957), The Battle for Italy (1967), and Overlord: Normandy 1944 (1978). Later works include Britain's Triumph and Decline in the Middle East (1996). He was knighted in 1971. |
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