# The Honour and the Shame

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- Book: [The Honour and the Shame](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-kenneally-vc/the-honour-and-the-shame) ([The Honour and the Shame.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-kenneally-vc/the-honour-and-the-shame.md))
- Authors: [John Kenneally Vc](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-kenneally-vc)
- Publisher: headline_review
- ISBN: 978-07-5531-612-0
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2008-05-29
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Many years after becoming the youngest person ever to be awarded the VC for attacking a company of Panzer Grenadiers on his own - an action that proved a turning point in one of the major battles of the Second World War - John Kenneally made an extraordinary confession. The courageous hero of the Irish Guards, who had taken on a whole company single-handed was not, in fact, John Kenneally at all, but Leslie Jackson, the illegitimate son of Neville Blond and Gertrude Robinson (a 'high-class whore'), who had deserted his former regiment, the Honourable Artillery Company. In THE HONOUR AND THE SHAME, he tells his story with great verve and frankness - a story of riotous living, great courage on the front line, and intense loyalties. Full of the escapades of battle - from the triumphant Tunisian campaign to the bloodbath of Anzio - and the many adventures of a freewheeling youth, THE HONOUR AND THE SHAME is a vivid portrait of a fascinating man.