Behind Enemy Lines: The Autobiography of Britain's Most Decorated Living War Hero. Sir Tommy MacPherson with Richard Bath

Behind Enemy Lines: The Autobiography of Britain's Most Decorated Living War Hero. Sir Tommy MacPherson with Richard Bath by MacPherson. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781845966362.

With three Military Crosses, three Croix de guerre, a Legion dhonneur and a papal knighthood for his heroics during the Second World War, Sir Tommy Macpherson is the most decorated living soldier of the British Army. Yet for 65 years the Highlanders story has remained untold. Few know how, aged 21, he persuaded 23,000 SS soldiers of the feared Das Reich tank column to surrender, or how Tommy almost single-handedly stopped Titos Yugoslavia annexing the whole of north-east Italy. Still a schoolboy when war broke out, Tommy quickly matured into a legendary commando. Twice captured, he escaped both times, marching through hundreds of miles of German-held territory to get home. With a dizzyingly diverse cast of characters, including Winston Churchill, Field Marshal Montgomery and Charles de Gaulle, Behind Enemy Lines is an astonishing story of how an ordinary boy came to achieve truly extraordinary feats when war came calling.