Home › Authors › John Cotesworth Slessor 👤 John Cotesworth Slessor b. 1897 – d. 1979 · 7 books Biography A senior commander in the Royal Air Force (RAF), serving as Chief of the Air Staff from 1950 to 1952. Books by John Cotesworth Slessor The great deterrent 2003 Air power and armies Air power and armies 1982 Strategy for the West 1974 These remain: a personal anthology 1969 Command and control of Allied Command and control of Allied nuclear forces 1965 What price coexistence? What price coexistence? 1961 The central blue The central blue 1956