Het bloedstollende, niet eerder vertelde verhaal van de SAS nazi-jagers: Britse Special Forces die na de Tweede Wereldoorlog gevluchte nazi’s opspoordenIn de zomer van 1944 werden zestig soldaten van de Special Air Service (SAS) ingezet voor een geheime commando-operatie: Operatie Loyton. Ze belandden achter de vijandelijke linies in de Vogezen om wegen, spoorwegen en munitiedepots van de nazi’s te saboteren en zo de laatste verdedigingslinie van Hitler te breken. Ondanks hun succe...

One of the most remarkable stories in the history of Special Forces' operations - Daily ExpressIn the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, wartime leader Winston Churchill knew that Britain had to strike back hard.He recruited a band of eccentric free-thinking warriors to become the first 'deniable' secret operatives behind enemy lines, offering these volunteers nothing but the potential for glory and all-but-certain death....

Meet the unit that posed as Nazi stormtroopers in the most daring mission ever undertakenSAS Ghost Patrol is the explosive true story of the day in 1942 when the SAS donned Nazi uniforms to perpetrate the most audacious and daring mission of the war. Beyond top secret, deniable in the extreme (and of course enjoying Churchill's enthusiastic blessing), this is one of the most remarkable stories of wartime lawlessness, eccentricity and raw courage in the f...

Praise for Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author Damien Lewis' SAS mission series:'One of the great untold stories of WWII' - Bear Grylls on SAS Ghost Patrol'The untold story' - Daily Mail on SAS Nazi Hunters'A tale of bravery against desperate odds' - Sunday Times on Churchill's Secret Warriors'True adventures laced with staggerin...

T****he incredible true story of the SAS's mission to liberate Europe, featuring never-before-seen archive materialFROM BESTSELLING MILITARY HISTORIAN DAMIEN LEWISSummer, 1943: the largest invasion fleet ever assembled sailed for Europe, aiming to bulldoze its way onto Nazi shores. At its vanguard went a few hundred elite soldiers, their Royal Navy warship bearing the iconic motto 'Who Dares Wins'.

**'A humbling, inspiring account of some of the real founders of modern day Special Forces soldiering' Bear GryllsThe Nazi Hunters** is the incredible, hitherto untold story of the most secret chapter in the SAS's history. Officially, the world's most elite special forces unit was dissolved at the end of the Second World War, and not reactivated until the 1950s. Among their last actions was a disastrous commando raid into occupied France in 1944, which ended in the capture...

Agent Josephine vertelt het spannende, aangrijpende verhaal van Josephine Baker als spion voor het Franse verzet tegen de nazi’s aan de hand van nieuwe bronnen en interviewsZangeres. Actrice. Model. Spion. Vóór de Tweede Wereldoorlog stond Josephine Baker (1906-1975) bekend om haar zang en dans, haar schoonheid en sensualiteit; ze was de bestbetaalde vrouwelijke artiest in Europa. Toen de nazi’s haar geliefde stad Parijs innamen, weigerde ze er nog op te treden, tot Frankr...

Het bloedstollende, niet eerder vertelde verhaal van de SAS nazi-jagers: Britse Special Forces die na de Tweede Wereldoorlog gevluchte nazi's opspoordenIn de zomer van 1944 werden zestig soldaten van de Special Air Service (SAS) ingezet voor een geheime commando-operatie: Operatie Loyton. Ze belandden achter de vijandelijke linies in de Vogezen om wegen, spoorwegen en munitiedepots van de nazi's te saboteren en zo de laatste verdedigingslinie van Hitler te breken. Ondanks hun succe...

When special forces soldier Jason Morgan awoke from a months-long coma, he was told he'd never walk again. Discovered face-down in a Central American swamp after a jungle mission gone wrong, he had a smashed spine, collapsed lungs and countless broken bones. It was a miracle he'd even survived.Months of painful surgery followed, with Jason's life balanced on a knife-edge. Released from hospital in a wheelchair and plagued by memory loss, Jason's life fell apart. Left alone to raise...

The Sunday Times No.1 bestseller.They were branded as cowards and accused of being the British Special Forces Squadron that ran away from the Iraqis. But nothing could be further from the truth. Ten years on, the story of these sixty men can finally be told.In March 2003 M Squadron - an SBS unit with SAS embeds - was sent 1,000 kilometres behind enemy lines on a true mission impossible, to take the surrender of the 100,000-strong Iraqi Army 5th Corps. From ...

THE SECOND INSTALMENT IN THE BESTSELLING ESCAPES SERIES, FROM MILITARY HISTORIAN DAMIEN LEWISSAS Great Escapes Two recounts the hitherto untold stories of six of the most dramatic and daring escapes executed by the world's most famous fighting force during WWII. From the very earliest SAS missions to the push into Nazi-occupied Europe, they cover some of the key figures in the Regiment, including its founder, David Stirling, plus other lesser-known heroes....

SAS Great Escapes tells the story of seven of the most dramatic and daring escapes executed during WWII by what is arguably the world's most famous military fighting force - the SAS.With each story comes a nail-biting, rollercoaster ride in classic Damien Lewis style - readers join individual escapees and experience events through their own words, taken from contemporaneous diaries, mission reports, debriefings and letters - recapturing the most terrifying and exhi...