General Sir William Jackson died last month. He contributed the chapter 'Through the Soft Under Belly, January 1942–December 1945', to The Hitler Options: Alternate Decisions of World War II edited by Kenneth Macksey. Although Greenhill did not publish any books by Bill Jackson, we enjoyed our association with him, were in regular liaison, and he reviewed a number of Greenhill books kindly in papers such as the Daily Telegraph. To quote from his obituary in The Times (London): 'As a fighting Sapper in the Second World War, Jackson had seldom been far from the action, as attested by his two MCs, awarded in the Norwegian and Italian campaigns. He had also served in North Africa, and during the latter part of the war he went out to the Far East. In 1958 he was to return to Malaya, where he was deeply involved in anti-terrorist operations. He had by that time become established as a staff officer of the highest class, and his intellect was later to make him a fine chronicler of military campaigns, in many of which he had fought personally.' The long obituary in the Daily Telegraph included: 'Bill Jackson had a dry sense of humour and enjoyed gardening, walking, and fly fishing; but his main interest was writing. Endowed with an incisive intellect, his standards in everything were high, but he was kind, generous and tolerant. His warmth of feeling was evident in his chairmanship of the Friends of Gibraltar Heritage (1990–94).' Books by Bill Jackson included Attack on the West (1953), Seven Roads to Moscow (1957), The Battle for Italy (1967), The Battle for Rome (1969). (From the City Diary in The Times, London) Back to Greenhill Military Book News No. 90 Table of Contents Back to Greenhill Military Book News List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 1999 by Greenhill Books This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com