How One Soldier Fought the Nazis With a Sword During World War II
Defeating Nazis while playing the Bagpipe?
Some stories turn into legends, just because of the passing of time. Some begin as legends and are remembered as miracles. This is one of them.
“Mad Jack” could not have been a more fitting title for John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill. Far too many in history have been awarded titles for sheer bravery, or beating the odds with unrelenting persistence. But John, fondly known as Jack Churchill, was no reckless madman or lunatic.
Jack was just an officer who used swords, arrows, and bagpipes to defeat, arguably the biggest ideological and practical threat we have faced — Nazism.
The Full Picture — Jack Churchill’s Life before WW2
His beginnings were perhaps ordinary to the force he became as an officer. Born in 1925 in Colombo, he was educated at King William’s College, and graduated from the Royal Military College at Sandhurst in 1926. But he was no robot, no macho soldier we conceive of — rather, he defied the stiff lipped, hardened conception of a soldier to begin with, especially that of the conventional British order.
Jack did not start out, or even continue forward as someone necessarily considered…
