Behind Enemy Lines: The Autobiography of Britain's Most Decorated Living War Hero - Softcover
With three Military Crosses, three Croix de guerre, a Légion d’honneur, and a papal knighthood for his heroics during the Second World War, Sir Tommy Macpherson is the most decorated living soldier of the British Army. Yet for 65 years the Highlander's story has remained untold. Few know how, aged 21, he persuaded 23,000 SS soldiers of the feared Das Reich tank column to surrender, or how Tommy almost single-handedly stopped Tito's Yugoslavia annexing the whole of northeast Italy. Still a schoolboy when war broke out, Tommy quickly matured into a legendary commando. Twice captured, he escaped both times, marching through hundreds of miles of German-held territory to get home. With a dizzyingly diverse cast of characters, including Winston Churchill, Field Marshal Montgomery, and Charles de Gaulle, Behind Enemy Lines is an astonishing story of how an ordinary boy came to achieve truly extraordinary feats when war came calling.
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Richard Bath is an award-winning journalist who writes for Scotland on Sunday on history, politics, food, and sport. Sir Tommy Macpherson was born in Edinburgh in 1920.
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"One of Scotland's most courageous sons."
— Sunday Herald
"My book of the year, without question... reads like a combination of a Biggles adventure and Dick Barton."
— Jeffrey Archer in Books of the Year 2010, Daily Telegraph
"Amongst the most single-minded warriors that the war can have produced."
— Sir Max Hastings on Sir Tommy in his book Das Reich
— Sunday Herald
"My book of the year, without question... reads like a combination of a Biggles adventure and Dick Barton."
— Jeffrey Archer in Books of the Year 2010, Daily Telegraph
"Amongst the most single-minded warriors that the war can have produced."
— Sir Max Hastings on Sir Tommy in his book Das Reich
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