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Through Albert's Eyes (Hardcover)
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Through Albert's Eyes (Hardcover)
Series: British Navy at War and Peace, No. 2
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Loot Price R537
Discovery Miles 5 370
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The autobiography of Tony Bentley-Buckle, a child of the Empire who
was left to grow up in the care of maiden aunts. Having joined the
Royal Navy before the war, he found himself on the Northern Patrol
during the blockade of Germany and as a teenager in command of
captured ships. When he brought a ship through the minefields into
Scapa Flow, the young Midshipman Bentley-Buckle was interviewed by
the famously ferocious Admirax Max Horton who recommended him for
advanced promotion. In a fit of derring-do he volunteered for
'special service' without knowing what this meant and began
training for one of Britain's secret navies. As a beach commando he
was one of the first ashore at the Allied landings on Sicily and
one of the first Allied officers to cross the Straits of Messina.
On Reggio beach he became one of the few people to order General
Montgomery to stop talking and not to block the exit of the beach!
He was soon seconded even deeper into British secret services when
he was lent to MI9, the escape and evasion agency, helping to
rescue hundreds of British prisoners of war in Italy. He was
captured in a fierce hand-to-hand battle with the Germans, escaped,
recaptured and was badly-beaten, eventually reaching
Prisoner-of-War Camp 'Marlag O'. There he helped organise one the
cheekiest escapes from a prisoner-of-war camp by making the eyes
for a dummy known as 'Albert RN'. Post-war he learned to fly,
sailed a small boat to East Africa and founded a shipping empire
and an airline. This is a remarkable and exciting true story
including escape and evasion behind enemy lines in Italy,
Yugoslavia and Germany; life in a prisoner-of-war camp and
adventure in the Indian Ocean.
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