[1] Following his graduation in 1937 Lewin worked as an editorial assistant with the British publishing house of Jonathan Cape Limited.
He wrote ten books during his lifetime and was working on a one-volume history of World War II at the time of his death.
[1] Writing in a foreword to a book by Lewin, historian Max Hastings said "He quickly established a reputation as one of the major military writers of his generation."
Searle asserted these works were part of a group of writings that created a Rommel legend, a view that the Field Marshal was an apolitical, brilliant commander and a victim of the Third Reich due to his presumed participation in the 20 July plot to kill Adolf Hitler.
[4] Historian Patrick Major states that Lewin's biography of Rommel focused on his military career, presenting him strictly as a soldier.