| Entry Text: | WINDMILL, Lorna Almonds. A British Achilles: The Story of George, 2nd Earl Jellicoe KBE DSO MC FRS 20th Century Soldier, Politician, Statesman. xxii, 256p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Leo Cooper, 2005. ISBN: 1844158810.
Jellicoe's war, mostly in the SAS and SBS, could hardly have been more out of the ordinary, exciting or, for the reader, stirring. His is an enviable record of behind-the-lines action against the King's enemies, epitomised by winning a DSO as a 24-year-old lieutenant — a rare distinction indeed for one so junior. |
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