Richard Bath and Tommy Macpherson (2011 event)

Rugby writer Richard Bath has tackled a very different kind of
battle in aiding Sir Tommy Macpherson with his memoir, Behind
Enemy Lines. Britain’s most decorated living war hero with three
Military Crosses, three Croix de Guerre, a Légion d'Honneur and a
papal knighthood, Macpherson has now revealed so much more about
his wartime acts. Aged 21, he persuaded 23,000 SS soldiers to
surrender, and almost single-handedly stopped Tito’s Yugoslavia
annexing the whole of north-east Italy. Listen to his astonishing
story in this live recording of his sold-out 2011 Edinburgh
International Book Festival event.