David W WilliamsDavid W Williams was born in 1935 - old enough in February 1941 to watch the Luftwaffe engage with the RAF in dog fights over his home town: Swansea. He has memories of walking over firehose pipes playing on burning buildings in the devastated city cntre. He went on to attend Gowerton Grammar School from where, to the surprise of his peers and headmaster, he was accepted into The Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst as an officer cadet. He was commissioned as a subaltern into the Royal Engineers on 4th February 1955.In his early commissioned years he commanded units which built roads and bridges in Malaysia, a Wilderness park in Canada and a Sports Stadium in Gibraltar. He also served tours in the 12 Infantry Brigade as part of the British Army of the Rhine confronting the Warsaw Pact armies headed by the Soviet Union.As a Major, he attended Technical and General Staff Colleges and was also nominated to attend the National Defence College. This process was interrupted by the advent of miliary tuberculosis and leukemia, leading to a break of two years from active service.As a Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel he lectured on the strategy and tactics of nuclear warfare and served in General Staff appointments concerned with a weapon design and procurement. Ill health returned in the form of pneumonia and meningitis and he was discharged prematurely from service in 1988.For the next 25 years he started and ran a furniture manufacturing Company from which he retired in 2015. Along the way he suffered colon cancer and a stroke. He is now a partner in a family-owned vineyard. His wife died of very late diagnosed cancer in 2021. He remains healthy and retains an interest in international economic and military mattersHe was a contributing author to The Third World War: A Future History by General Sir John Hackett published in 1979. Read More Read Less