Freefall — Robert Radcliffe

Dreadfully injured in the Arnhem landings, paratrooper Theo Trickey has lain unconscious in a POW camp for four months. Now he is coming round and Medical Officer Daniel Garland is beginning to piece together his astonishing story. Trickey's war record is extraordinary: escaped the British Expeditionary Force's retreat; raided southern Italy and northern France as a commando; fought in the African desert; air-dropped into Sicily; lead a partisan cell in Italy; tortured by the Gestapo. But that's not all. What was the recently-dead Rommel's interest in the injured young soldier? His loyalest officers have contacted Garland and want him to do something for them. The second part of an unforgettable story of how a young man and a new regiment changed the course of a war.