19: Giles Milton on a commando's unexpected encounter with Erwin Rommel

May 9, 2019 · 12 min · Episode 19 · 12.0 MB

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With commemorations for the 75th anniversary of D-Day just around the corner, we were delighted to welcome Giles Milton to our May lunch.

His new book, D-Day: A Soldiers' Story charts the stories of the men and women who took part in the Normandy landings.

At the lunch, he recounted the tale of a one-man raid on a Normandy beach, in May of 1944, which ended in a chance encounter with Erwin Rommel.