Book description
This is a book about two men. The first is Henry Tandey, an
ordinary man, born and brought up in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, who
displayed extraordinary courage to emerge from the First World War as
the most decorated British soldier to survive the war. The second is
Adolf Hitler who served in the Great War and went on to become one of
the most infamous dictators in history, who brought the world to the
brink of destruction during the Second World War. It seems unlikely
that their fates should collide. Yet, in 1938, Hitler named Tandey as
the soldier who spared his life in the aftermath of the Battle of
Marcoing in September 1918. This book tells the story of Henry's and
Hitler's war, the moment when their lives became intertwined, whether
Hitler told the truth about the battle, and how Henry lived with the
stigma of being the man who let Hitler live.
