Tom Pocock [SEP] occupation
Tom Pocock
Thomas Allcot Guy Pocock, writing under the name Tom Pocock, (18 August 1925, London – 7 May 2007, London) was an English biographer, war correspondent, journalist and naval historian.
Life.
He was the son of the novelist and educationist Guy Pocock, who taught Lord Mountbatten at Dartmouth, and attended Westminster School and Cheltenham College. He joined the Royal Navy in 1943, being present at D-Day and then serving as naval "minder" to war correspondents covering the Battle
history
- Hall, D. O. W. "Women at War," in "Episodes & Studies Volume 1" (Historical Publications Branch, Wellington, New Zealand, 1948) pp 1–33 online
Historiography.
- Austrin, Terry, and John Farnsworth. "Assembling Histories: J. G. A. Pocock, Aotearoa/New Zealand and the British World," "History Compass" (Sep 2009), 7#5 pp 1286–1302
- Tony Ballantyne, "Culture and Colonization: Revisiting the Place of Writing in Colonial New Zealand