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James Leasor

August 20, 2023

James Leasor (20 December 1923 – 10 September 2007) was a prolific British author, who wrote historical books and thrillers. A number of Leasor's works were made into films, including his 1978 book, Boarding Party, about an incident from the Second World War that until that time was secret, which was turned into The Sea Wolves (1980) starring Gregory Peck, Roger Moore and David Niven.

James Leasor
Born(1923-12-20)20 December 1923
Erith, Kent, England[1]
Died10 September 2007(2007-09-10) (aged 83)
Wiltshire, England
Pen nameJames Leasor;
Andrew MacAllan
OccupationAuthor
Period1946–1997
GenreFiction, History
Website
www.jamesleasor.com

Biography

Leasor was born in Erith, Kent, in 1923, and was educated at the City of London School.[2]

On leaving school, whilst waiting to join the army, he had his first foray into journalism as a cub reporter for the Kent Messenger. As soon as he was old enough he enlisted in the Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment). He was then commissioned into the Royal Berkshire Regiment and volunteered for service in the Far East, where he served in Burma with the Lincolnshire Regiment during World War II.[1] Whilst serving with the Lincolns he saw action in the Battle of the Admin Box. In the Far East, whilst sailing in convoy HC-44 from Calcutta to Chittagong, his troopship, the El Madina, was torpedoed on 16 March 1944 [3] and he spent 18 hours adrift in the Indian Ocean. Ten crew, six gunners and 364 troops died.

Leasor wrote his first book, Not Such a Bad Day, by hand in the jungles of Burma on airgraphs, single sheets of light-sensitive paper which could be reduced to the size of microdots and flown to England in their thousands, to be expanded to full size again. His mother typed the book and sent it to an agent, who found a publisher. It sold 28,000 copies, although Leasor received just £50 for all its rights.[1][2] He was wounded in action (injuries from a shell) on 8 May 1944 in the Arakan, and treated at 25 Indian Casualty Clearing Station. In November 1944 he left Burma to become a sub-editor of Contact, a bi-weekly newspaper for the forces of India Command in Delhi and South East Asia Command, under the editorship of Frank Owen. He returned to Burma as an Army Observer for the 12th Army, at that time in Rangoon. In February 1946 he was transferred to HQ Malaya Command in Kuala Lumpur. During his time as an observer, he travelled throughout Burma, Malaya, the Shan States and the Andaman Islands by plane and jeep. He reckoned that he had visited practically every town in these regions by the time he returned to the UK in mid-1946. His official record shows that he wrote over 300 news stories on the Burma campaign, and also contributed features for the BBC and All India Radio, as well as for virtually every British national newspaper. His novel, NTR: Nothing to Report, was a semi-autobiographical account of some of his experiences in India and Burma during the war.

After the war, he went to Oriel College, Oxford, where he read English and edited The Isis magazine. He joined the Express after university and became private secretary to Lord Beaverbrook, the proprietor of the newspaper, and then a foreign correspondent.[2]

He first came to notice as an author with a number of critically acclaimed histories. These included The Red Fort, his account of the Indian Mutiny, on which Cecil Woodham-Smith commented in the New York Times: "Never has this story of hate, violence, courage and cowardice been better told";[4] The One That Got Away, about the only German prisoner of war, Franz von Werra, to escape from Allied territory during World War 2, which was later made into a film starring Hardy Kruger; The Plague and the Fire, about London's twin disasters in the 17th century; The Millionth Chance about the loss of the R101 airship; and Singapore: The Battle that Changed the World, on the Battle of Singapore in 1942.

He became a full-time author in the 1960s after the success of his novel Passport to Oblivion, a thriller featuring Dr Jason Love, which became one of the best selling books of the decade and was filmed as Where the Spies Are (1965) starring David Niven. An audio version of Passport to Oblivion was produced and released in 2019 starring George Lazenby[5][6] as Dr Jason Love. Leasor wrote nine more thrillers featuring Jason Love, as well a string of other novels. He continued to write historical books: later titles included Green Beach (1975) about the Dieppe Raid of 1942 and a secret operation to capture German radar equipment; Boarding Party (1978), based on the real events of Operation Creek in 1943, which was filmed as The Sea Wolves (1980); The Unknown Warrior about an agent who was a major part of the D-Day deception plans; and Who Killed Sir Harry Oakes?, which was made into a TV mini-series in 1989 called Passion and Paradise, starring Armand Assante, Catherine Mary Stewart, Mariette Hartley and Kevin McCarthy, with Rod Steiger playing Sir Harry Oakes. His final novel was Rhodes and Barnato (1997), which examined the lives of two men, Cecil Rhodes and Barney Barnato, who were major figures in the history of South Africa.

Leasor wrote a number of books under the pseudonym Andrew MacAllan,[7] and ghosted 'autobiographies' for people as diverse as King Zog of Albania and British actors Kenneth More and Jack Hawkins.[2]

He had a great interest in cars, and owned some pre-war specimens such as a rare Cord roadster, which appeared in the Jason Love novels,[8][9] and an SS Jaguar 100 which featured in his Aristo Autos series.

Leasor married barrister Joan Bevan on 1 December 1951 and they had three sons. He lived for his last 40 years at Swallowcliffe Manor, near Salisbury in Wiltshire. He died in Salisbury on 10 September 2007, aged 83, and is buried in the churchyard of St. Peter's Church in Swallowcliffe.

Andrew MacAllan

The pseudonym 'Andrew MacAllan' is said to have been conceived by Leasor and his literary agent, Gillon Aitken, during a long lunch. Leasor was then in his sixties and finding it harder to interest publishers in new book projects. They were happy to publish some of his proven successes, such the Jason Love thrillers, but they would limit their print runs to 20,000 in hardback, most of which would be acquired by libraries. He would then be told that few had been sold to retailers, and that therefore there was no popular demand for a larger run.

Leasor was also frustrated by people accosting him at drinks parties and saying it was virtually impossible for a new author to be published on merit alone, without some fashionable backstory to excite the publisher’s interest. Aitken and Leasor wanted to overcome these obstacles. But how could a ‘new’ author get a book published without revealing who he was? Their idea involved an author who, with a credible reason, was unable to meet the publisher. The narrative was developed that MacAllan was a successful businessman based in the Far East who, because of the nature of his work, travelled frequently. He would be hard to tie to any particular location or schedule. All contact would be made through the agent, Gillon Aitken.

Leasor wrote the first three chapters and a synopsis of an epic historical saga, loosely based on the origins of Hong Kong-based trading companies like Jardine Matheson and Swire. Gillon Aitken took it, along with the agreed story about MacAllan, around a number of London-based publishers. It was snapped up by the fairly recently-launched – and very ambitious – Headline Publishing Group, with a healthy advance.

During his travels around the world, Leasor had collected hotel-headed writing paper from various places, and 'MacAllan' used these to correspond with the publisher. He was introduced to a branch manager of the Royal Bank of Scotland in Pall Mall, who agreed to open a bank account in the name of Andrew MacAllan, so that any royalty payments could be made without arousing suspicion; the bank could also act as a forwarding address.

The first book, Succession, a 700 page blockbuster, was published in 1989 and sold well. An initial print run of 50,000 in hardback quickly sold out and reprints swiftly followed, making it Headline's biggest seller that year. A sequel, Generation, came out the following year, and similar sales success resulted.

The pressure from the publishers to meet their star author became overwhelming. Who was this unknown writer who could so effortlessly turn out bestsellers, with supposedly no previous experience? Numerous meetings had been scheduled, and then cancelled at short notice because of MacAllan's supposed "hectic travel schedule". But Aitken and Leasor realised that this could not go on for ever and they revealed the deception. Headline, now part of the Hachette publishing group, published four more MacAllan bestsellers, Diamond Hard, Fanfare, Speculator and Traders.

Bibliography

Jason Love novels

  • Leasor, J. (1964). Passport to Oblivion. London: Heinemann. OCLC 11919382.
  • Leasor, J. (1966). Passport to Peril. London: Heinemann. ISBN 9780552105866. OCLC 3505645. Published in the U.S. as Leasor, J. (1966). Spylight. Philadelphia: Lippincott. OCLC 1378217.
  • Leasor, J. (1967). Passport in Suspense. London: Heinemann. OCLC 28535433. Published in the U.S. as Leasor, J. (1967). The Yang Meridian. New York: Putnam. OCLC 408333.
  • Leasor, J. (1968). Passport for a Pilgrim. London: Heinemann. ISBN 0-434-41013-6. OCLC 41039.
  • Leasor, J. (1969). A Week of Love : Being Seven Adventures of Dr. Jason Love. London: Heinemann. ISBN 0-434-41014-4. OCLC 59215589.
  • Leasor, J. (1971). Love-all. London: Heinemann. ISBN 0-434-41017-9. OCLC 16196092.
  • Leasor, J. (1979). Love and the Land Beyond. London: Heinemann. ISBN 0-434-41027-6. OCLC 63827505.
  • Leasor, J. (1989). Frozen Assets. London: Grafton. ISBN 0-246-13310-4. OCLC 19671462.
  • Leasor, J. (1992). Love Down Under. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-246-13713-4. OCLC 26358996.

Jason Love and Aristo Autos novel

Aristo Autos novels

  • Leasor, J. (1969). They Don't Make Them Like That Any More. London: Heinemann. OCLC 78482.
  • Leasor, J. (1970). Never Had a Spanner on Her. London: Heinemann. OCLC 29647906.

Robert Gunn novels

Other novels

  • Leasor, J. (1946). Not Such a Bad Day.
  • Leasor, J. (1951). The Strong Delusion. London: Harrap. OCLC 1872596.
  • Leasor, J. (1955). NTR : Nothing to Report. London: Werner Laurie. OCLC 14350159.
  • Leasor, J. (1972). Follow the Drum. London: Heinemann. ISBN 0-434-41019-5.
  • Leasor, J. (1982). Open Secret. London: Collins. ISBN 0-00-222336-8. OCLC 10057404.
  • Leasor, J. (1984). Ship of Gold. London: Collins. ISBN 0-00-222797-5. OCLC 12502794.
  • Leasor, J. (1986). Tank of Serpents. London: Collins. ISBN 0-00-222915-3. OCLC 13158926.

As Andrew MacAllan (novels)

Short stories

  • Leasor, J. At Rest at Last - first published in The Rigby File (1989), ed. Tim Heald

Non-fiction

  • Leasor, J. (1951). The Monday Story. Oxford University Press. OCLC 30190895.
  • Leasor, J. (1952). Author by Profession. London: Cleaver-Hume Press. OCLC 1925903.
  • Leasor, J. (1954). Wheels to Fortune; a brief account of the life and times of William Morris, Viscount Nuffield. London: The Bodley Head. OCLC 14118317.
  • Leasor, J. (1955). The Serjeant-major; a biography of R.S.M. Ronald Brittain, M.B.E., Coldstream Guards. London: Harrap. OCLC 2154501.
  • Leasor, J. (1956). . London: W. Laurie. OCLC 2514152. Archived from the original on 1 February 2020. Retrieved 26 February 2012.
  • Burt, K.; Leasor, J. (1956). The One That Got Away. London: Collins. OCLC 2071959.
  • Leasor, J. (1957). The Millionth Chance: The Story of the R.101. London: H. Hamilton. OCLC 2216706.
  • Leasor, J.; Hollis, L. (1959). War at the Top; based on the experiences of General Sir Leslie Hollis. London: Michael Joseph. OCLC 385375.
  • Eton, P.; Leasor, J. (1960). Wall of Silence. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill. ISBN 0-434-41019-5. OCLC 1609399.
  • Leasor, J. (1961). . New York: McGraw-Hill. OCLC 6683903. Archived from the original on 3 April 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
  • Leasor, J. (1962). Rudolf Hess : The Uninvited Envoy. London: Allen & Unwin. OCLC 1373664.
  • Leasor, J. (1968). Singapore: The Battle that Changed the World. London: Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 0-340-04434-9. OCLC 23377403.
  • Leasor, J. (1975). . London: Heinemann. ISBN 0-434-41024-1. OCLC 1354236. Archived from the original on 26 November 2011. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
  • Leasor, J. (1978). . London: Heinemann. ISBN 0-434-41026-8. OCLC 4191743. Archived from the original on 7 August 2020. Retrieved 23 February 2013. Republished in paperback 1980 as The Sea Wolves with a special foreword by Lord Mountbatten of Burma.
  • Leasor, J. (1980). The Unknown Warrior. London: Heinemann. OCLC 6869173. Republished in paperback as Leasor, J. (1980). X-Troop. London: Heinemann. OCLC 16603611.
  • Leasor, J. (1983). Who Killed Sir Harry Oakes?. London: Heinemann. ISBN 0-434-41029-2. OCLC 10520894.
  • Leasor, J. (1988). The Marine from Mandalay. London: Leo Cooper. OCLC 29637493.
  • Leasor, J. (1997). Rhodes & Barnato : The Premier and the Prancer. London: Leo Cooper. ISBN 0-85052-545-4. OCLC 37321005.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Adrian, Jack (22 December 2007). "James Leasor: Journalist and thriller writer". The Independent. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d "Obituary: James Leasor". The Daily Telegraph. 14 September 2007. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  3. ^ https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?57986[bare URL]
  4. ^ Woodham-Smith, Cecil (21 April 1957). "A greased cartridge set it off" (PDF). New York Times. p. Book Review section.
  5. ^ "George Lazenby: 'They offered me £1 million cash to do a second Bond film – I walked away'".
  6. ^ "George Lazenby: 'Being a ladies man is one of the best things in the world'".
  7. ^ . The Times. London. 22 September 2007. Archived from the original on 24 May 2011. Retrieved 23 September 2007.
  8. ^ Cathcart, Brian (13 November 2006). "The man with the golden typewriter". New Statesman. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  9. ^ Masterton, Graham (10 September 2001). "Letter to the Editor – Placing products".

External links

  • Official website

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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources James Leasor news newspapers books scholar JSTOR August 2020 Learn how and when to remove this template message James Leasor 20 December 1923 10 September 2007 was a prolific British author who wrote historical books and thrillers A number of Leasor s works were made into films including his 1978 book Boarding Party about an incident from the Second World War that until that time was secret which was turned into The Sea Wolves 1980 starring Gregory Peck Roger Moore and David Niven James LeasorBorn 1923 12 20 20 December 1923Erith Kent England 1 Died10 September 2007 2007 09 10 aged 83 Wiltshire EnglandPen nameJames Leasor Andrew MacAllanOccupationAuthorPeriod1946 1997GenreFiction HistoryWebsitewww wbr jamesleasor wbr com Contents 1 Biography 2 Andrew MacAllan 3 Bibliography 3 1 Jason Love novels 3 2 Jason Love and Aristo Autos novel 3 3 Aristo Autos novels 3 4 Robert Gunn novels 3 5 Other novels 3 6 As Andrew MacAllan novels 3 7 Short stories 3 8 Non fiction 4 See also 5 References 6 External linksBiography EditLeasor was born in Erith Kent in 1923 and was educated at the City of London School 2 On leaving school whilst waiting to join the army he had his first foray into journalism as a cub reporter for the Kent Messenger As soon as he was old enough he enlisted in the Buffs Royal East Kent Regiment He was then commissioned into the Royal Berkshire Regiment and volunteered for service in the Far East where he served in Burma with the Lincolnshire Regiment during World War II 1 Whilst serving with the Lincolns he saw action in the Battle of the Admin Box In the Far East whilst sailing in convoy HC 44 from Calcutta to Chittagong his troopship the El Madina was torpedoed on 16 March 1944 3 and he spent 18 hours adrift in the Indian Ocean Ten crew six gunners and 364 troops died Leasor wrote his first book Not Such a Bad Day by hand in the jungles of Burma on airgraphs single sheets of light sensitive paper which could be reduced to the size of microdots and flown to England in their thousands to be expanded to full size again His mother typed the book and sent it to an agent who found a publisher It sold 28 000 copies although Leasor received just 50 for all its rights 1 2 He was wounded in action injuries from a shell on 8 May 1944 in the Arakan and treated at 25 Indian Casualty Clearing Station In November 1944 he left Burma to become a sub editor of Contact a bi weekly newspaper for the forces of India Command in Delhi and South East Asia Command under the editorship of Frank Owen He returned to Burma as an Army Observer for the 12th Army at that time in Rangoon In February 1946 he was transferred to HQ Malaya Command in Kuala Lumpur During his time as an observer he travelled throughout Burma Malaya the Shan States and the Andaman Islands by plane and jeep He reckoned that he had visited practically every town in these regions by the time he returned to the UK in mid 1946 His official record shows that he wrote over 300 news stories on the Burma campaign and also contributed features for the BBC and All India Radio as well as for virtually every British national newspaper His novel NTR Nothing to Report was a semi autobiographical account of some of his experiences in India and Burma during the war After the war he went to Oriel College Oxford where he read English and edited The Isis magazine He joined the Express after university and became private secretary to Lord Beaverbrook the proprietor of the newspaper and then a foreign correspondent 2 He first came to notice as an author with a number of critically acclaimed histories These included The Red Fort his account of the Indian Mutiny on which Cecil Woodham Smith commented in the New York Times Never has this story of hate violence courage and cowardice been better told 4 The One That Got Away about the only German prisoner of war Franz von Werra to escape from Allied territory during World War 2 which was later made into a film starring Hardy Kruger The Plague and the Fire about London s twin disasters in the 17th century The Millionth Chance about the loss of the R101 airship and Singapore The Battle that Changed the World on the Battle of Singapore in 1942 He became a full time author in the 1960s after the success of his novel Passport to Oblivion a thriller featuring Dr Jason Love which became one of the best selling books of the decade and was filmed as Where the Spies Are 1965 starring David Niven An audio version of Passport to Oblivion was produced and released in 2019 starring George Lazenby 5 6 as Dr Jason Love Leasor wrote nine more thrillers featuring Jason Love as well a string of other novels He continued to write historical books later titles included Green Beach 1975 about the Dieppe Raid of 1942 and a secret operation to capture German radar equipment Boarding Party 1978 based on the real events of Operation Creek in 1943 which was filmed as The Sea Wolves 1980 The Unknown Warrior about an agent who was a major part of the D Day deception plans and Who Killed Sir Harry Oakes which was made into a TV mini series in 1989 called Passion and Paradise starring Armand Assante Catherine Mary Stewart Mariette Hartley and Kevin McCarthy with Rod Steiger playing Sir Harry Oakes His final novel was Rhodes and Barnato 1997 which examined the lives of two men Cecil Rhodes and Barney Barnato who were major figures in the history of South Africa Leasor wrote a number of books under the pseudonym Andrew MacAllan 7 and ghosted autobiographies for people as diverse as King Zog of Albania and British actors Kenneth More and Jack Hawkins 2 He had a great interest in cars and owned some pre war specimens such as a rare Cord roadster which appeared in the Jason Love novels 8 9 and an SS Jaguar 100 which featured in his Aristo Autos series Leasor married barrister Joan Bevan on 1 December 1951 and they had three sons He lived for his last 40 years at Swallowcliffe Manor near Salisbury in Wiltshire He died in Salisbury on 10 September 2007 aged 83 and is buried in the churchyard of St Peter s Church in Swallowcliffe Andrew MacAllan EditThe pseudonym Andrew MacAllan is said to have been conceived by Leasor and his literary agent Gillon Aitken during a long lunch Leasor was then in his sixties and finding it harder to interest publishers in new book projects They were happy to publish some of his proven successes such the Jason Love thrillers but they would limit their print runs to 20 000 in hardback most of which would be acquired by libraries He would then be told that few had been sold to retailers and that therefore there was no popular demand for a larger run Leasor was also frustrated by people accosting him at drinks parties and saying it was virtually impossible for a new author to be published on merit alone without some fashionable backstory to excite the publisher s interest Aitken and Leasor wanted to overcome these obstacles But how could a new author get a book published without revealing who he was Their idea involved an author who with a credible reason was unable to meet the publisher The narrative was developed that MacAllan was a successful businessman based in the Far East who because of the nature of his work travelled frequently He would be hard to tie to any particular location or schedule All contact would be made through the agent Gillon Aitken Leasor wrote the first three chapters and a synopsis of an epic historical saga loosely based on the origins of Hong Kong based trading companies like Jardine Matheson and Swire Gillon Aitken took it along with the agreed story about MacAllan around a number of London based publishers It was snapped up by the fairly recently launched and very ambitious Headline Publishing Group with a healthy advance During his travels around the world Leasor had collected hotel headed writing paper from various places and MacAllan used these to correspond with the publisher He was introduced to a branch manager of the Royal Bank of Scotland in Pall Mall who agreed to open a bank account in the name of Andrew MacAllan so that any royalty payments could be made without arousing suspicion the bank could also act as a forwarding address The first book Succession a 700 page blockbuster was published in 1989 and sold well An initial print run of 50 000 in hardback quickly sold out and reprints swiftly followed making it Headline s biggest seller that year A sequel Generation came out the following year and similar sales success resulted The pressure from the publishers to meet their star author became overwhelming Who was this unknown writer who could so effortlessly turn out bestsellers with supposedly no previous experience Numerous meetings had been scheduled and then cancelled at short notice because of MacAllan s supposed hectic travel schedule But Aitken and Leasor realised that this could not go on for ever and they revealed the deception Headline now part of the Hachette publishing group published four more MacAllan bestsellers Diamond Hard Fanfare Speculator and Traders Bibliography EditJason Love novels Edit Leasor J 1964 Passport to Oblivion London Heinemann OCLC 11919382 Leasor J 1966 Passport to Peril London Heinemann ISBN 9780552105866 OCLC 3505645 Published in the U S as Leasor J 1966 Spylight Philadelphia Lippincott OCLC 1378217 Leasor J 1967 Passport in Suspense London Heinemann OCLC 28535433 Published in the U S as Leasor J 1967 The Yang Meridian New York Putnam OCLC 408333 Leasor J 1968 Passport for a Pilgrim London Heinemann ISBN 0 434 41013 6 OCLC 41039 Leasor J 1969 A Week of Love Being Seven Adventures of Dr Jason Love London Heinemann ISBN 0 434 41014 4 OCLC 59215589 Leasor J 1971 Love all London Heinemann ISBN 0 434 41017 9 OCLC 16196092 Leasor J 1979 Love and the Land Beyond London Heinemann ISBN 0 434 41027 6 OCLC 63827505 Leasor J 1989 Frozen Assets London Grafton ISBN 0 246 13310 4 OCLC 19671462 Leasor J 1992 Love Down Under London HarperCollins ISBN 0 246 13713 4 OCLC 26358996 Jason Love and Aristo Autos novel Edit Leasor J 1973 Host of Extras London Heinemann ISBN 0 434 41020 9 OCLC 667816 Aristo Autos novels Edit Leasor J 1969 They Don t Make Them Like That Any More London Heinemann OCLC 78482 Leasor J 1970 Never Had a Spanner on Her London Heinemann OCLC 29647906 Robert Gunn novels Edit Leasor J 1973 Mandarin Gold London Heinemann ISBN 0 434 41022 5 OCLC 806328 Leasor J 1975 The Chinese Widow London Heinemann ISBN 0 434 41023 3 OCLC 2074606 Leasor J 1976 Jade Gate London Heinemann ISBN 0 434 41025 X OCLC 2646806 Other novels Edit Leasor J 1946 Not Such a Bad Day Leasor J 1951 The Strong Delusion London Harrap OCLC 1872596 Leasor J 1955 NTR Nothing to Report London Werner Laurie OCLC 14350159 Leasor J 1972 Follow the Drum London Heinemann ISBN 0 434 41019 5 Leasor J 1982 Open Secret London Collins ISBN 0 00 222336 8 OCLC 10057404 Leasor J 1984 Ship of Gold London Collins ISBN 0 00 222797 5 OCLC 12502794 Leasor J 1986 Tank of Serpents London Collins ISBN 0 00 222915 3 OCLC 13158926 As Andrew MacAllan novels Edit MacAllan A 1989 Succession London Headline ISBN 0 7472 0094 7 OCLC 18321969 MacAllan A 1990 Generation London Headline ISBN 0 7472 0116 1 OCLC 20564160 MacAllan A 1991 Diamond Hard London Headline ISBN 0 7472 0346 6 OCLC 22623910 MacAllan A 1992 Fanfare London Headline ISBN 0 7472 0476 4 OCLC 26357827 MacAllan A 1993 Speculator London Headline ISBN 0 7472 0731 3 OCLC 29222039 MacAllan A 1994 Traders London Headline ISBN 0 7472 0995 2 OCLC 30778975 Short stories Edit Leasor J At Rest at Last first published in The Rigby File 1989 ed Tim HealdNon fiction Edit Leasor J 1951 The Monday Story Oxford University Press OCLC 30190895 Leasor J 1952 Author by Profession London Cleaver Hume Press OCLC 1925903 Leasor J 1954 Wheels to Fortune a brief account of the life and times of William Morris Viscount Nuffield London The Bodley Head OCLC 14118317 Leasor J 1955 The Serjeant major a biography of R S M Ronald Brittain M B E Coldstream Guards London Harrap OCLC 2154501 Leasor J 1956 The Red Fort an account of the Siege of Delhi in 1857 London W Laurie OCLC 2514152 Archived from the original on 1 February 2020 Retrieved 26 February 2012 Burt K Leasor J 1956 The One That Got Away London Collins OCLC 2071959 Leasor J 1957 The Millionth Chance The Story of the R 101 London H Hamilton OCLC 2216706 Leasor J Hollis L 1959 War at the Top based on the experiences of General Sir Leslie Hollis London Michael Joseph OCLC 385375 Eton P Leasor J 1960 Wall of Silence Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill ISBN 0 434 41019 5 OCLC 1609399 Leasor J 1961 The Plague and the Fire New York McGraw Hill OCLC 6683903 Archived from the original on 3 April 2016 Retrieved 23 February 2013 Leasor J 1962 Rudolf Hess The Uninvited Envoy London Allen amp Unwin OCLC 1373664 Leasor J 1968 Singapore The Battle that Changed the World London Hodder amp Stoughton ISBN 0 340 04434 9 OCLC 23377403 Leasor J 1975 Green Beach London Heinemann ISBN 0 434 41024 1 OCLC 1354236 Archived from the original on 26 November 2011 Retrieved 23 February 2013 Leasor J 1978 Boarding Party London Heinemann ISBN 0 434 41026 8 OCLC 4191743 Archived from the original on 7 August 2020 Retrieved 23 February 2013 Republished in paperback 1980 as The Sea Wolves with a special foreword by Lord Mountbatten of Burma Leasor J 1980 The Unknown Warrior London Heinemann OCLC 6869173 Republished in paperback as Leasor J 1980 X Troop London Heinemann OCLC 16603611 Leasor J 1983 Who Killed Sir Harry Oakes London Heinemann ISBN 0 434 41029 2 OCLC 10520894 Leasor J 1988 The Marine from Mandalay London Leo Cooper OCLC 29637493 Leasor J 1997 Rhodes amp Barnato The Premier and the Prancer London Leo Cooper ISBN 0 85052 545 4 OCLC 37321005 See also EditCalcutta Light Horse List of films based on war booksReferences Edit a b c Adrian Jack 22 December 2007 James Leasor Journalist and thriller writer The Independent Retrieved 23 November 2016 a b c d Obituary James Leasor The Daily Telegraph 14 September 2007 Retrieved 13 January 2016 https www wrecksite eu wreck aspx 57986 bare URL Woodham Smith Cecil 21 April 1957 A greased cartridge set it off PDF New York Times p Book Review section George Lazenby They offered me 1 million cash to do a second Bond film I walked away George Lazenby Being a ladies man is one of the best things in the world Obituary James Leasor The Times London 22 September 2007 Archived from the original on 24 May 2011 Retrieved 23 September 2007 Cathcart Brian 13 November 2006 The man with the golden typewriter New Statesman Retrieved 13 July 2021 Masterton Graham 10 September 2001 Letter to the Editor Placing products External links EditOfficial website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title James Leasor amp oldid 1169953324, wikipedia, 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