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

John Randall,M J Trow

ISBN 10: 1780575270 / ISBN 13: 9781780575278

Published by Mainstream Publishing 2016-12-01, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: 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
• Publisher: Mainstream Publishing 2016-12-01
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1780575270
• ISBN 13: 9781780575278
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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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. Now in his 90s, 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This extraordinary true story, partly based on previously unpublished diaries, presents a different slant on that mighty war through the eyes of a restless young man eager for action and adventure.

About the Author

John Randall ran a highly successful business training school after his military career. M J Trow is a military historian who has recently ghostwritten Survivor, the story of Holocaust survivor Sam Pivnik, and Survivor on the River Kwai.