results of torture mutilation and seeing someone blown to pieces by a bomb you develop a kind of shell but you had to you had to otherwise we would never have won considering what we know about warfare that's a bit of an understatement if anything luckily lee didn't have to suffer such an environment forever and he retired from the raf in NUMBER_TOKEN with the rank of flight lieutenant even though he never flew after the war he even carried his military id around with him to get into police and military headquarters whenever he felt like it now i would hate to burst your bubble especially considering how much you all love epic war stories but i have to dish out some hard truths lee wasn't really a member of the special forces while it is true that he was attached to the long-range desert group and the special operations executive he didn't actually serve with them being attached just means that he was an intelligence liaison so his primary job would have been briefing and debriefing pilots and sharing intel with other units it also doesn't help that lee's name doesn't appear in any records further proving that his involvement was a lot more modest than people were led to believe as for the post-war nazi hunting well in reality lee's job was more comprised of detective work behind a desk instead of scalping sauerkrauts and raiding flights to buenos aires but despite the fact that i now feel like i'm telling a child that santa isn't real i'm not saying that lee lied about his military service after all he went out of his way to avoid discussing it but it's safe to say that the rumors of lee's exploits got a little bit out of hand although this was likely by design the special forces units that lee was attached to weren't actually subject to the official secrets act which means that lee was free to talk about them as he pleased he just chose not to so any rumors that people decided to make up they really weren't lee's fault lee didn't say anything other people just made up a bunch of exaggerated stuff but you can't blame him too much what showman especially was larger than life as christopher lee doesn't like to maintain a bit of mystique luckily lee's exploits from this point onwards more than make up for the embellishment of his military record and it only gets crazier from here upon his return to civilian life lee just couldn't bring himself to go back to working behind the desk so he was at a bit of a crossroads in his life and he really didn't know what to do with himself and then one day lee was having lunch with his cousin niccolo carandine who just happened to be the italian ambassador to britain at the time when he asked lee why don't you become an actor he also pointed out that lee's great grandparents had founded the first opera company in the NUMBER_TOKENs so performing was in his blood however lee's mother was less than thrilled that her son had found his calling lee quoted her as saying think of the disgrace you will bring on the family and think of the appalling people you will have to work with what did she mean by this well she wasn't
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