Leo kessler biography

Leo Kessler

Leo Cooper tells an interesting story about the creation of Leo Kessler, Charles’ first pseudonym.

The following is an extract from Leo’s book, “All my Friends will Buy it”:

“I recall the name Leo Kessler which was a pun on my name and the double S in the title was the SS badge. This was an in-joke.

Charles Henry Whiting, was a British writer and military historian and with some books of fiction and non-fiction to his credit, under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms including Duncan Harding, Ian Harding, John Kerrigan, Leo Kessler.

Charles Henry Whiting, was a British writer and military historian and with some books of fiction and non-fiction to his credit, under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms including Duncan Harding, Ian Harding, John Kerrigan, Leo Kessler.

Leo Kessler is a pseudonym for Charles Whiting, who also writes as Duncan Harding and John Kerrigan.

Leo Kessler, the creator of the immortal Sergeant Schulze famed throughout the SS NCO Corps for his talented musical farts.

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As Charles remembers, I suggested that Anthony Cheetham had a project for him. We met in Halle 7 at the Frankfurt Book Fair that year and Anthony said, as it was lunchtime, that we ought to eat something. Being a very canny man with a penny, he didn’t invite us to one of the inside places (too expensive).

Instead we went outside to one of the booths where he generously ordered Bratwurst and Bier. Then we sat in the freezing cold on a bench, with the early snow falling lightly, enjoying this splendid meal and thought of a name for the new author who would write about the SS (according to Anthony), rather like the good and bad guys in the old westerns!

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