meetjohn counsell, the british army colonel who played a pivotal role in ending world war ii.tor and theatre manager, in 1940 he was called up into the theatre of war. but army life, his twin daughters told me, wasn't for him. what sort of soldier was he? inept, i think the word would be. his battery commander said that he was the worst soldier he had ever come across. jenny and eizabeth were small children at the time. theirfather, despite being a poor soldier, was a good writer, and was propelled into ghost writing official reports for the allied commander general eisenhower. newsreel: nazism was crushed in the rubble of german cities. by the spring of 1945, with germany overpowered and hitler dead, the country's surrender was inevitable. the momentous tasks of drafting the surrender document fell to john counsell. he was ordered to go away and write a document in an hour—and—a—half, for the germans to sign, top secret. 0nly he and the stenographers, as he called then, the typists, should know about it. so off he went, and rather stunned, sat down at his desk. extraordinary,

meetjohn counsell, the british army colonel who played a pivotal role in ending world war ii.tre of war. but army life, his twin daughters told me, wasn't for him. what sort of soldier was he? inept, i think the word would be. his battery commander said that he was the worst soldier he had ever come across. jenny and eizabeth were small children at the time. theirfather, despite being a poor soldier, was a good writer, and was propelled into ghost writing official reports for the allied commander general eisenhower. newsreel: nazism was crushed in the rubble of german cities. by the spring of 1945, with germany overpowered and hitler dead, the country's surrender was inevitable. the momentous tasks of drafting the surrender document fell to john counsell. he was ordered to go away and write a document in an hour—and—a—half, for the germans to sign, top secret. only he and the stenographers, as he called then, the typists, should know about it. so off he went, and rather stunned, sat down a his desk. sat down at his desk. extraordinary, what a huge responsibility. yes, at first

meetjohn counsell, the british army colonel who played a pivotal role in ending world war ii. war. but army life, his twin daughters told me, wasn't for him. what sort of soldier was he? inept, i think the word would be. his battery commander said that he was the worst soldier he'd ever come across. jenny and elizabeth were small children at the time. theirfather, despite being a poor soldier, was a good writer, and was propelled into ghost writing official reports for the allied commander general eisenhower. newsreel: nazism was crushed in the rubble of german cities. by the spring of 1945, with germany overpowered and hitler dead, the country's surrender was inevitable. the momentous task of drafting the surrender document fell to john counsell. he was ordered to go away and write a document in 1.5 hours for the germans to sign, top secret, only he and the stenographers, as he called then, the typists, should know about it. so off he went, and rather stunned, sat down at his desk. extraordinary — what a huge responsibility. yes, at first, he really didn't know what to put, a