| Entry Text: | SOUTHBY-TAILYOUR, Ewen. Blondie: A Biography of Lieutenant–Colonel H.G. Hasler, DSO, OBE, Croix de Guerre, Royal Marines. xx, 412p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Cooper, 1998.
Hasler was widely known as a yachtsman, but better and more popularly as the leader of the Cockleshell Heroes. Commissioned in 1932, he fought in Norway, then moved to special forces, both in the Far East and Europe. About one-third of the book describes his war. |
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