The Honour and the Shame
$36.83
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2008
Summary
The Honour and the Shame: A Soldier’s Confession
Many years after becoming the youngest person ever to be awarded the VC for attacking a company of Panzer Grenadiers on his own – an action that proved a turning point in one of the major battles of the Second World War – John Kenneally made an extraordinary confession. The courageous hero of the Irish Guards, who had taken on a whole company single-handed was not, in fact, John Kenneally at all but Leslie Jackson, the illegitimate so…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780755316120 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0755316126 |
| Author: | John Kenneally Vc |
| Publisher: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Headline Review |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2008 |
| Weight: | 195g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 131mm x 19mm |
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Critics Review
“For readers of wartime memoirs, this one’s a winner.”
“Avery welcome reprint of one of the most amazing VC biographies to have been written.” The Victoria Cross Society”“For readers of wartime memoirs, this one’s a winner.” “Booklist””“A very welcome reprint of one of the most amazing VC biographies to have been written.” –The Victoria Cross Society
About The Author
John Kenneally Vc
John Kenneally was awarded the VC during the Tunisian campaign in the Second World War. He was promoted sergeant after the fall of Tunis and later wounded during the battle of Anzio in February 1944. He subsequently joined the 1st Guards Parachute Battalion, and went out to Palestine. Tempted to join the Israeli forces, thoughts of his wife and two sons, and his loyalty to the Guards, kept him from doing so. After the war, he had a successful career in the motor industry.
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