The Illusionist
The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler
- author
- Robert Hutton
- Narrator
- Al Murray
- Length
- 9 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher
- Hachette
- Catalogue #
- 22327
- Categories
- Biography - Historical to 1945War - WW2
- Reviews
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Cairo, 1942: If you had asked a British officer who Colonel Clarke was, they would have been able to point him out: always ready with a drink and a story, he was a well-known figure in the local bars. If you then asked what he did, you would have less success. Those who knew didn't tell, and almost no one really knew at all.
Drawing on recently released documents and hugely expanding on the louche portrait of Clarke as seen in SAS: Rogue Heroes, journalist and historian Robert Hutton reveals the amazing story of Clarke's A Force, the invention of the SAS and the Commandos, and the masterful hoodwinking of the Desert Fox at the battle of El Alamein.