There are also interesting accounts of the stool pigeons and traitors the Axis forces used to counter the SAS. Developing ‘butcher and bolt’ raids on enemy airfields which forged their reputation, striking from the great sand sea to cause mayhem behind enemy lines. In time, we're delivered from the sand to Italy with David Stirling captured and incarcerated as a prisoner of war in Rome and Mayne fighting the enemy within as others seek to disband his successful unit. He (and his film crew) traveled into such areas with aid workers, the British or allied military, UN forces or local military groups, or very much under their own steam. Lewis’s prose is straightforward and compelling, and the chronological organization of the book makes the events (situated in the larger context of World War II) easy to follow.

Mayne had to be ruthless to survive and there is little doubt that his experiences in the Commandos, before he was recruited by Stirling, changed him. The impossibly moving story of how Judy, World War Two’s only animal POW, brought hope in the midst of hell. Lewis states that Mayne had an unconventional mind set, that was truly engendered to think the unthinkable. amien Lewis is a number one bestselling author whose books have been translated into over forty languages worldwide. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages.Well, few know more about the heroics, history and histrionics surrounding Robert Blair Mayne, someone whom fellow soldier Joe Welch described as ". Armed with knowledge earned first-hand in the torture chambers of the Gestapo, the race was on to bring to justice the Nazi war criminals who had murdered their brothers in arms. Over the preceding fifteen years Lewis had reported from many war, conflict and disaster zones – including Sudan, Sierra Leone, Eritrea, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Iraq, Syria, Burma, Afghanistan and the Balkans (see Author's Gallery).

In Brothers in Arms, Damien Lewis pays tribute to the mavericks and visionaries who founded elite-forces soldiering-the SAS. I do wonder if David Stirling's capture in early 1943 was a body blow to the SAS or the kind of release to a commanding officer in Mayne who had the foresight, the ability and the unremitting loyalty of his troops to see through the SAS's role after D Day with the same dedicated ferocity to the enemy Mayne showed in the Desert.The example normally given to illustrate this was a raid on Tamet airfield, when Mayne shot a number of German pilots in their mess. This book shares the story of Churchill’s Special Services, commonly known as the SAS, in Italy and Africa. As Churchill said, they helped bring about the end of the beginning so that the fight could be brought back to the European continent.

uk/landing-page/quercus/quercus-company-information/">The data controller is Quercus Editions Ltd. 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. But even as the combat-worn ranks of the SAS risked all to deliver the first resounding defeats on Nazi Germany, there were well-founded fears that their fortunes would change.Damien’s previous books on the SAS are all excellent books, but I think that he has surpassed himself this time around and this book is the best one yet! As is mentioned in the book, especially in medic Malcolm Pleydell's reminisces, this very strange and focused life the men lived in the desert, dedicated to destroying enemy equipment and the killing that went with that work, meant that these men would never be able to truly leave this time behind them. This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in black cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. Focusing on the British Secret Service, Lewis describes the exploits of a particular SAS unit who saw action throughout World War II, notably involved in the Italy landings and combat across Northern Africa. A rightfully proud regiment with an unrivalled esprit de corps, they were disavowed as unruly by top brass, unyieldingly vaunted by Churchill, and courageously loyal to the clandestine “butcher and bolt” raids that made their sacrifices—and their triumphs—legendary.

With the fine narration of Peter Noble, the accomplishments, disappointments, and unrivaled esprit de corps of the Special Air Service (SAS) focuses on British officer David Stirling, Irish officer Paddy Mayne, and the men willing to follow them to the ends of the earth. He has written more than twenty books, including The Ministry for Ungentlemanly Warfare, Agent Josephine, Churchill’s Band of Brothers, SAS Ghost Patrol, and The Nazi Hunters. Desert Claw tells of a group of ex-Special Forces soldiers sent into Iraq to retrieve a looted Van Gogh painting, with a savage twist to the tale.

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. Am not sure about all the negative things said about this seller by other people,,, because my experience was completely different, totally positive. 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. That fiction was followed up by Cobra Gold, an equally compelling tale of global drama and intrigue and shadowy betrayal.