With three Military Crosses, three Croix de guerre, a Légion d'honneur,
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 Highlander's 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 Tito's Yugoslavia annexing the whole of northeast 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.