 He was assigned to the Gordon Highlanders for no other reason than his first name's Scottish roots.Later recruited to the Special Operations Executive, he worked in Scandinavia - both behind enemy lines in occupied Norway and in neutral Sweden - as a spy and saboteur, blowing up a German munitions train some 70 miles from his own family home in Leksand, Dalarna.After a harrowing escape, recounted in his wartime memoir "Sweet is War", he was put in charge of SOE's activities in Southern Italy, where he participated in the Anzio landings.