Eric Linklater

Eric Linklater was a Scottish poet, fiction writer, military historian and travel writer. Linklater served as a sniper in the British Army during World War I. He also commanded a unit of Royal Engineers during World War II and was later employed by the War Office Public Relations department to write official "instant histories" of the war, such as "The Defence of Calais" (1941) and "The Northern Garrisons". He also visited the Korean War for the War Office as a temporary Lieutenant-Colonel.