A Major Hoodwink: How a Royal Scot Outwitted a German General

In the darkest days of World War II, as the German forces swelled all the more ferociously, one man used his wit and audacity where his rank fell perilously short. With German General Wilhelm Daser and his men firmly planted in Middleburg in Holland, Major Hugh Johnston of the Royal Scots Regiment managed to alter the course of their occupation with little more than a hoodwink. After all, he had the love of his life, his wife Mary Kate, anxiously awaiting his return. A Major Hoodwink: How a...