It bears all his hallmarks - an epic, page-turning special forces narrative based on hitherto unavailable personal testimony and private family archives. This spellbinding account brings to life the exploits of a brave band of warriors, one of whom was my uncle, Colonel Blair ‘Paddy’ Mayne DSO, who commanded the SAS for much of WWII. Damien Lewis is a number one bestselling author whose books have been translated into over forty languages worldwide.

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What followed was a series of daring and barely believable exploits that actually prompted the intervention of Hitler himself. SAS BAND OF BROTHERS is replete with action, peppered with great characters, and features two of the most daring escapes of WWII. Initially, it's all very exciting and remarkable, but Lewis' gung-ho writing style (all the Brits are just jolly good lads) wears thin. His slavery documentary told the story of a young girl from the Nuba tribe, seized in a raid and sold into slavery in Khartoum, Sudan's capital city, and of her epic escape.eplete with surprise, shock, action, heroic endeavour and glory, not to mention subterfuge, treachery and dismay, this is a classic combination of combat writing and breath-taking narrative non-fiction. In a country crawling with the enemy, their mission is to prevent Hitler from rushing his Panzer divisions to the D-Day beaches and driving the Allies back into the sea. SAS Band of Brothers is replete with action, peppered with great characters, and features two of the most daring escapes of WWII.

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A dozen of his books have been made, or are being made, into movies or TV drama series and have been adapted as plays for the stage. He was injured, and was hospitalised with bizarre tropical diseases – including flesh-eating bacteria, worms that burrow through the skin and septicemia – but survived all that and continued to report. Against all odds, outnumbered some fifty-to-one, and facing a ferocious series of cliffside defences, they would have to dare all as never before. This was a very interesting book and I was really surprised to learn about this group of British soldiers. The other players, whose accounts form the basis of this book, are Lieutenant Rex Wiehe, a Mauritian, Corporal Serge Vaculik, a Czech who had joined the Free French and Corporal Thomas ’Ginger’ Jones, and a miner from Wigan.Join bestselling military historian Damien Lewis in this online talk, and discover the triumphs and tragedies of a group of elite soldiers in the Second World War.

REVIEW – SAS: Band of Brothers | Military History Matters

The Epilogue brought home that these young men were real people whose lives might have ended in oblivion except for extraordinary efforts by two determined fellow agents and one great author. and you replied 'Yes, I'm a Bigot, by Neptune,' it meant you had the highest possible security clearance.Having written a number of true stories, in 2006 he was chosen as one of the 'nation's 20 favourite authors' and wrote his first fiction, Desert Claw, for the British Government's Quick Read initiative. An account of the exploits of Britain’s Special Air Services regiment behind the lines in occupied France in 1944, that introduces the reader to a group of remarkable characters. This may seem to be an unusual name for a team of highly professional soldiers but then this is only the first of many extraordinary features of this operation.

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Miraculously, two escaped, triggering one of the most-extraordinary Nazi-hunting operations, in an unrelenting bid to seek out those responsible for the deaths of their comrades. Had I not picked up this book accidentally, I'd have never heard about SABU-70 and their story, which I find very sad. Band of Brothers follows one unit of SAS agents across two missions: the first is a success, and its retelling is made complete with an escape right out of Hollywood, the men dashing to make their pickup on a Nazi airfield, klaxons wailing. This was a well written and engaging book that does a very good job of bringing the people involved fully to light and illuminates the difficulties that they faced.

The skill of pilots and crews is highlighted, culminating in the audacious extraction of SABU-70 from Étampes aerodrome by a C47 – truly the stuff of Hollywood.