author
Frederick Sleath
1889–1966
A Scottish-born writer and First World War veteran, he drew on front-line experience to create gripping war fiction with a sharp eye for soldiers' lives. His best-known work, Sniper Jackson, helped bring the reality of trench warfare to early 20th-century readers.
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The judgment of Johan Coull
by Frederick Sleath
About the author
Born in Borrowstounness, West Lothian, Scotland, Frederick James Sleath (1889–1966) served with the Royal Scots during the First World War. He fought in the Ypres Salient before an injury moved him to desk work at the War Office.
That wartime background shaped his fiction. He wrote novels and stories including Sniper Jackson and The Red Vulture, works remembered for their military settings and vivid sense of experience.
Sleath died in 1966. Although he is not widely known today, his writing remains of interest to readers looking for early war fiction rooted in lived service.