Past retirement age he initiated his own private inquiry into the Repatriation of Cossacks after World War II, and published the English texts of European Union treaties.
[2] Cowgill later transferred to the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and spent a year in Canada working on waterproofing tanks ready for D-Day.
[1] Having conducted a joint study project with several companies in the 1960s, Cowgill set up the British Work Measurement Data Foundation in 1970.
This body led on in 1979 to the British Management Data Foundation, which Cowgill and his son Andrew ran from home in the Cotswolds.
Tolstoy accused former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan of conspiring to go beyond the agreement at the Yalta Conference and send anti-Soviet troops to their deaths.