Tommy Goes To War

Thomas Miller never imagined he would hear such words as he stood naked and dripping wet, in a bombed out Dutch house. It was all because he'd learned to speak French in the eastern townships of Quebec, that he now faced the muzzle of an SS rifle. Afterall, he didn't really need to be there. He'd already done his bit, hadn't he?

He'd raised hell behind Rommel's front lines in North Africa as an original member of the Special Air Service. He'd drank whisky with Churchill's son and coffee with Arab camel drivers under a star filled primeval sky in the deep Sahara. He'd damn near killed an American in Italy over a ridiculous race issue, but at least that had vaulted him into the SOE.

Yes, he had been around alright. What a strange fate that led to his capture after the disastrous allied attack on Arnhem, in Operation Market Garden? But he wasn't shot that day. Instead, he was thrown into a concentration camp, with no future. That is, until he met a very peculiar officer of the SS, a British hating South African Boer with a vendetta of his own.

Inspired largely by real events and exhaustive research, this is a different story.

Unusual men can do extraordinary things, but history tells us that the most common man, when called upon, can also do the extraordinary.