2011 Edinburgh International Book Festival
2011 Edinburgh International Book Festival
Edinburgh International Book Festival
Richard Bath and Sir Tommy Macpherson (2011 Event)
51 minutes Posted Sep 29, 2011 at 8:23 am.
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Rugby writer Richard Bath has tackled a very different kind of battle in aiding Sir Tommy Macpherson with his memoir, Behind Enemy Lines. Britain’s most decorated living war hero with three Military Crosses, three Croix de Guerre, a Légion d'Honneur and a papal knighthood, Macpherson has now revealed so much more about his wartime acts. Aged 21, he persuaded 23,000 SS soldiers to surrender, and almost single-handedly stopped Tito’s Yugoslavia annexing the whole of north-east Italy. Come and hear an astonishing story.