Eric Mockler-Ferryman

Brigadier General Eric Edward Mockler-Ferryman (1896–1978) was a British army military intelligence officer who wrote the British official history of the Second World War between 1947 and 1952. During the Second World War, Ferryman headed the German section of the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI), he was General Eisenhower's chief of intelligence in the run-up to Operation Torch, and he ended the war with a transfer to the civilian Special Operations Executive (SOE). He was awarded the Legion of Merit.