read the book....it's horrifying. War is disgusting.
Shame - i was going to watch this. The story doesn't need anything added but then i guess they have to add something to make it a dramatisation.
When he got back to London after his stint in Colditz he stated that on the second night he mentioned 'roger'? Funny thing, I never heard the name in any of the three episodes, There was a Paddy, a Jack, and a parachuting padre, but not a roger!
After the description of how he saved that bunch half way up the road I wondered whether Paddy received a VC. Three DSOs apparently and probably more than enough to warrant a VC, but he might have had the wrong kind of accent or drank the wrong kind of liquor.
The cabin boy ?
Yes it covers the VC recommendation. I’m at the point in the book we’re he’s been de mobbed and taken a job in the South Atlantic. The author had access to stuff his family had retained after his death.
May be wrong but think he punched out a VERY senior officer which lead to a recommendation for VC being quietly downgraded to another bar on his DSO
Yeah, I think that was before he joined the SAS. Think it was the Irish Rifles he was in. But there are some folk who make sure that past misdemeanours weigh far more heavily than valorous behaviour in saving lives and being instrumental in the success of an operation.
Yes knew I read it somewhere - you're definitely right - wrong sort of British dont you know!
Me too.