{"title":"Tom Carver","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"where-the-hell-have-you-been-by-tom-carver-9781804193396","title":"Where The Hell Have You Been?","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'A terrific read' \u003cstrong\u003eAndy McNab\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn November 1942, two nights after the Battle of El Alamein, a young British army officer was captured. As the Nazis deliberated about what to do with him, Richard Carver had particular reason to be afraid: unknown to anyone, he was the stepson of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, the Allied Commander who had just inflicted the first defeat on the Third Reich.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis gripping story tells of Richard's internment in a POW camp in northern Italy. Having decided to risk making his way back to Allied HQ in the south, he embarked on a gruelling 500-mile journey through German-occupied territory, evading capture again and again and ultimately being saved by a family of brave Italians who jeopardised not just their own lives but those of an entire village to hide him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the winter of 1943, a year after he disappeared, he staggered back into Army HQ, to be greeted by his stepfather with the words, 'Where the hell have you been?'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a great adventure story - a reminder of a lost age, and of a generation forced to rise to extraordinary feats of valour in the service of a cause greater than themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Riveting and remarkable' \u003cstrong\u003eBen Macintyre, author of \u003ci\u003eOperation Mincemeat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'This account is a gem. It reminds one of the gallantry and devotion to duty of a generation that has left us.' \u003cstrong\u003ePatrick Cordingley, Commander of the Desert Rats, Iraq, 1991\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhere the Hell Have You Been?\u003c\/i\u003e provides a completely new way of seeing the prickly old warrior, Monty' \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Daily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47933385310444,"sku":"9781804193396","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781804193396-where-the-hell-have-you-been.jpg?v=1783869536"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/tom-carver.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}