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 - Softcover

Randall, John; Trow, M J

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780575270 ISBN 13: 9781780575278

Publisher: Mainstream Publishing, 2016

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This extraordinary true story, partly based on previously unpublished diaries, presents a different slant on that mighty war through the eyes of a restless young man eager for action and adventure.

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Review:

"‘The man who stumbled on HELL: His place in history has never been revealed. His memoir recounts how he uncovered the horrors of Belsen’ " (Daily Mail)

Book Description:

Partly based on previously unpublished diaries, this is a moving testimony from the first Allied officer to enter Bergen-Belsen at the end of the Second World War.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1780575270
• ISBN 13: 9781780575278
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288