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Synopsis
With three Military Crosses, three Croix de Guerre, a Legion d'honneur and a papal knighthood for his heroics during the Second World War, Sir Tommy Macpherson is the most decorated soldier in the history 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 SS Das Reich tank column to surrender, or how Tommy almost single-handedly stopped Tito's Yugoslavia annexing the whole of north-east 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.
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About the Author
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.
Review
"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
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- PublisherSoundings Audio Books
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1407926470
- ISBN 13 9781407926476
- BindingAudio CD
- Number of pages10
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