Talk:Robert Laycock

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Good to have a friendly/admiring biographer. Of more recent vintage: "Laycock was in our eyes a society cavalryman with a close and exclusive interest in his own career; he was a bullshitter of the highest order. For him the Rommel raid was a no-lose situation. If it was successful, then by going along he would get credit, and if it wasn't, then by staying on the beach he would almost certainly be in a position to get out." --Lt. Tommy MacPherson, adjutant to Geoffrey Keyes and captured on a pre-raid reconnaissance of prospective landing beaches for "Flipper", quoted in "Raid on Rommel", Military History Presents: WWII History, Vol 11, No 3 (March 2012), p. 35.--Reedmalloy (talk) 06:19, 5 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

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... considering that was the only officer Evelyn Waugh served with whom he genuinely admired, and made the hero (Colonel Tommy Black) of his Sword of Honour trilogy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:44B8:3102:BB00:68AA:96F3:FCD5:1368 (talk) 06:52, 5 June 2021 (UTC)Reply