About Anthony Farrar-Hockley
General Sir Anthony Heritage Farrar-Hockley, nicknamed Farrar the Para, was a British Army officer and a military historian who fought in a number of conflicts and ended his career as Commander-in-Chief of NATO's Allied Forces Northern Europe. Throughout his four decades of army life, he spoke plainly; and both before and after his retirement in 1982, he wrote on the conflicts he had experienced and the Second World War. Following in father's footsteps his elder son Charles Dair Farrar-Hockley also won an MC fighting with the Parachute Regiment in the Falklands War. The fact that he was underage was soon discovered and he was discharged and had to wait to be re-enlisted in 1941. Later he won the Military Cross (MC) in 1944 while fighting the communist rebellion in Athens during the Greek Civil War.
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