Writer dies
NZPA-AP London Ronald Lewin, who wrote outstanding histories of British land campaigns in World War 11, has died after a long illness in Guildford, Surrey. 1 Lewin was 69 and a former radio producer for the 8.8. C. He served for most of the war as a field artillery officer with the Bth Army in North Africa from Alamein to Tunisia, and in north-west Europe from
Normandy to Germany. He once said that as he spent six years of his life in > the Army during the war he wanted to find out what had happened. Lewin’s biography in 1976 of Field Marshal Viscount Slim, who led the 14th Army to victory against the Japanese in Burma, is considered to have fortified assertions that he was among the two or three best British generals of the century.
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