Through Albert's Eyes: Vol. II

Having joined the Royal Navy before the war, Tony Bentley-Buckle found himself on the Northern Patrol during the blockade of Germany and as a teenager in command of captured ships. When he brought a ship through the minefields into Scapa Flow, the young Midshipman was interviewed by the famously ferocious Admiral Max Horton who recommended him for advanced promotion. As a beach commando he was one of the first ashore at the Allied landings on Sicily and one of the first Allied officers to cross the Straits of Messina. On Reggio beach he became one of the few people to order General Montgomery to stop talking and not to block the exit of the beach! He was captured in a fierce hand-to-hand battle with the Germans, escaped, recaptured and was badly-beaten, eventually reaching Prisoner-of-War Camp 'Marlag O'. There he helped organise one the cheekiest escapes from a prisoner-of-war camp by making the eyes for a dummy known as 'Albert RN'. This is a remarkable and exciting true story including escape and evasion behind enemy lines in Ittaly, Yugoslavia and Germany; life in a prisoner-of-war camp and adventure in the Indian Ocean.