The Last Gentleman of the SAS

The Last Gentleman of the SAS

by John Randall, M. J. Trow
The Last Gentleman of the SAS

The Last Gentleman of the SAS

by John Randall, M. J. Trow

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Overview

In 1945, John Randall was the first Allied officer to enter Bergen-Belsen, the concentration camp that revealed the horrors of the Holocaust to the world. Randall was one of the men handpicked for suicidally dangerous missions behind enemy lines in North Africa, Italy, France, and Germany throughout World War II. He hated the Germans, liked the French, and was unimpressed by the Americans and Arabs. 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 airplane. 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 This extraordinary true story, partly based on previously unpublished diaries, presents a different slant on that mighty war through the eyes of a young man eager for action and adventure.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781780575278
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing Company, Limited
Publication date: 11/01/2017
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.75(h) x 0.70(d)

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.

Table of Contents

Prologue: The Gates of Hell 9

1 A Chip Off the Old Block 17

2 The Phoniest of Wars 25

3 An Officer and a Gentleman 35

4 'So this is War' 53

5 'Grin, you Bugger, grin!' 75

6 Omega and Alpha 91

7 Glamorous Phantom 107

8 Out of Africa 129

9 The Bunch of Misfits 151

10 In the Belly of the Beast 173

11 Seven Brave Men 189

12 'Is Paris Burning?' 209

13 A Miracle in Belsen 225

Epilogue: We Shall Remember Them 243

Notes 259

Select Bibliography 269

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