On June 6, 1944, 155,000 Allied soldiers stormed five beaches in Normandy. Only one man received the Victoria Cross for his actions that day. This is the story of Company Sergeant Major Stanley Hollis — the giant of Gold Beach.
A fish and chip shop boy from Middlesbrough who survived Dunkirk, El Alamein, and Sicily. A man his comrades called "The Man They Couldn't Kill." On D-Day, wounded, outnumbered, and under constant fire, he single-handedly neutralised two German pillboxes, captured 30 prisoners, and walked back into open fire to save his men. Twice.
This is not a story about a superhero. This is a story about a man who decided that the people beside him mattered more than he did.
