This first-ever biography of of Lt. Cdr. Mike Cumberlege DSO & Bar, Greek Medal of Honour, murdered in Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp in Feb/March 1945, recalls a man who was 'truly Elizabethan in character--a combination of gaiety and solidity and sensitiveness and poetry with daring and adventurousness--and great courage.'
Cumberlege came from a maverick sea-going family. He was highly resourceful and lived by his wits, skippering ocean-going...