John E. Lewis is the nom de plume of one of the Eastern Shore’s most passionate native sons. A love for the land of his youth comes through with great sincerity in his numerous writings. He credits his wisdom, faith and courage of his extended family for much of his adult success.
Mr. Lewis is an international, award-winning author with eight books and countless short stories and articles to his credit. After graduating from Cambridge University, and a stint as an intelligence officer in the Air Force, he worked as a field archaeologist in the Near East and Central America.
For the past eighteen years, Mr. Lewis has been a publisher of scholarly books with over 400 bearing imprints. He is now the president of an American publishing company and a consultant to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.
The book reputes to be a handbook of the combat skills of the British Strategic Air Service, a commando organization. While a brief history of the SAS is provided, the rest of the information is jumbled and cursory. There is very little combat skills discussed that I did not learn much more about during my twenty years in the United States Marine Corps or from US Army manuals. Any American veteran learned more in bootcamp. It was not worth the price and the limited information could get the reader hurt if they attempt to follow it.