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THE LAST GENTLEMAN OF THE SAS
A MOVING TESTIMONY FROM THE FIRST ALLIED OFFICER TO ENTER BELSEN AT THE END OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR |
| By: |
John Randall, M J Trow |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£9.98 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1780578342 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781780578347 |
| Publisher: |
MAINSTREAM PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
27 March, 2014 |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Description: |
In 1945, the author was the first Allied officer to enter Bergen-Belsen - the concentration camp that would reveal the horrors of the Holocaust to the world. This title presents a different slant on that mighty war through the eyes of a restless young man eager for action and adventure. |
| Synopsis: |
In 1945, John Randall was the first Allied officer to enter Bergen-Belsen - the concentration camp that would reveal the horrors of the Holocaust to the world. Randall was one of that league of extraordinary gentlemen handpicked for suicidally dangerous missions behind enemy lines in North Africa, Italy, France and Germany throughout the Second World War. He was a man of his class and of his times. He hated the Germans, liked the French and was unimpressed by the Americans and the Arabs. He was an outrageous flirt, as might be expected of a man who served in Phantom alongside film stars David Niven and Hugh Williams. He played rugby with Paddy Mayne, the larger-than-life colonel of the SAS and winner of four DSOs. He pushed Randolph Churchill, son of the Prime Minister, out of an aeroplane. He wined and dined in nightclubs as part of the generation that lived for each day because they might not see another.This extraordinary true story, partly based on previously unpublished diaries, presents a different slant on that mighty war through the eyes of a restless young man eager for action and adventure. |
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1 x 8pp col |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Mainstream Digital |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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