Blurb

Admiral on Horseback

WHEN Admiral Sir Strangways Foxe-Forsyth made his first appearance in Blackwood's Magazine he was hailed with delight at the Admiralty. Copies were flown in helicopters from one naval air station to another. More guardedly, an American Admiral had the story circulated round his staff to be studied for its moral lessons. So it became clear that more of Admiral Foxe-Forsyth's adventures in post-war allied co-operation were needed. In Geoffrey Willans' Admiral on Horseback we see the Admiral in action, at sea and on shore, at various stages of his naval career until he emerges finally as the character who caused so much pleasure—brusque and austere but with a strong grain of humour, merciless to his staff but frequently at the mercy of events and, not least, of his own womenfolk. Admiral Foxe-Forsyth, a modern Hornblower, is a symbol of the senior service dealing characteristically with the delicate problem of working with the United States Navy.

Admiral on Horseback is great fun, but it is also a unique and revealing account of the Royal Navy's postwar work in the Atlantic and Mediterranean.

The author

GEOFFREY WILLANS was born in 1911 and educated at Blundell's School. Before the war he worked for a time as a schoolmaster. In 1940 he joined the Navy and served in corvettes, an aircraft carrier and in combined operations. Naval service took him to the Mediterranean, U.S.A., South Africa, India, Burma and Ceylon. After the war he joined the B.B.C. European Service as feature writer. He is married with two children and lives in the country. He is a frequent contributor to Blackwood's, Punch, Lilliput and other papers, and in collaboration with Ronald Searle was responsible for Down with Skool.

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