Stephen Donnison
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Just finished reading Micky Burn's autobiography Turned Towards The Sun and its really good .As most of you will know hes the chap captured at St Nazaire and filmed by the Germans putting his two fingers up .One good piece is when Paul Schmidt, Hitler's personal interpreter came to interrogate the captured commandos He interrogates a Sergeant Stanley and says "How can you British hope to win when half the oceans are already dominated by the German and Japanese navies?! to which Stan replies "Yes , the bottom half"
Micky has had a amazin life In the 1930s he met Hitler and also Roosevelt later. He also saved Audrey Hepburn's life! At the time of writing hes still with us in his late 90s
Thanks Pete for pointing this book out to me
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