The Honour and the Shame

Informationen zum Autor John Kenneally won the VC during the Tunisian campaign in the Second World War for attacking a whole company of Panzer Grenadiers on his own. It was only years later that he revealed that 'John Kenneally' was an assumed name that he had adopted in order to join the Irish Guards after deserting the Honourable Artillery Company. He was in fact the illegitimate son of Neville Blond and Gertrude. He died in September 2000 and is survived by his second wife and children. Klappentext Many years after becoming the youngest person ever to be awarded the VC for attacking a company of Panzer Grenadiers on his own - an action that proved a turning point in one of the major battles of the Second World War - John Kenneally made an extraordinary confession. The courageous hero of the Irish Guards, who had taken on a whole company single-handed was not, in fact, John Kenneally at all, but Leslie Jackson, the illegitimate son of Neville Blond and Gertrude Robinson (a 'high-class whore'), who had deserted his former regiment, the Honourable Artillery Company. In THE HONOUR AND THE SHAME, he tells his story with great verve and frankness - a story of riotous living, great courage on the front line, and intense loyalties. Full of the escapades of battle - from the triumphant Tunisian campaign to the bloodbath of Anzio - and the many adventures of a freewheeling youth, THE HONOUR AND THE SHAME is a vivid portrait of a fascinating man. Zusammenfassung One of the Remarkable True Stories of WWII series. A tale of a fascinating life of courage, wild escapades and a dark secret

Product details

• Authors: John Kenneally Vc, John Kenneally, John Kenneally VC, John Kenneally Vc
• Publisher: Review Headline
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 29.05.2008
• EAN: 9780755316120
• ISBN: 978-0-7553-1612-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 198 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, HISTORY / Military / World War II, HISTORY / Europe / General, Memoirs, British & Irish history, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, True war and combat stories, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General