The Last Gentleman of the SAS - A Moving Testimony from First Allied Officer to Enter Belsen at End

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. 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that lived for each day because they might not see another.This extraordinary true story, partly based on previously unpublished diaries, presents a different slant on that mighty war through the eyes of a restless young man eager for action and adventure.

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John Randall and M J Trow

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• Authors: John Randall, John Trow Randall, JohnTrow Randall, M J Trow, M. J. Trow
• Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.12.2016
• EAN: 9781780575278
• ISBN: 978-1-78057-527-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Europe, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, HISTORY / Military / World War II, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Autobiography: historical, political and military, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, sas; military history; bergen belsen; world war ii, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater