SAS Band of Brothers: The Last Stand of the SAS and Their Hunt for the Nazi Killers

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SAS Band of Brothers: The Last Stand of the SAS and Their Hunt for the Nazi Killers

SAS Band of Brothers: The Last Stand of the SAS and Their Hunt for the Nazi Killers

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The author of this book is highly recommended; he brings deep insight and scholarly discipline, providing the student with an unmarveled view of some of the little-known clandestine activities of WWII. Its amoral pragmatism was defended by a “bodyguard of lies”, an expression used by Winston Churchill. Luckily, after the “Acknowledgments” section I discovered many black and white photos from the World War II period that was covered in the book. They explore the birth of the unit, the selection of the brightest recruits, all day training in the North African desert with just one container of water. But, unfortunately, the Germans had a secret initiative of their own: a fiendishly simple but successful way of entrapping Allied parachutists.

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To the very few who knew what they were up to, Barkworth and his men became known, accurately enough, as the Secret Hunters. But miraculously, two would escape, triggering one of the most-extraordinary Nazi-hunting operations ever . Their objective: hit German forces deep behind the lines, cutting the rail-tracks linking Central France to the northern coastline.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.

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Much of it focuses on Barkworth's dogged pursuit of the Nazis who murdered most of an SAS unit led by the redoubtable Captain Pat Garstin. At a high school level, can be killed in a weekend, about the only issue I will give is I wish it went into a bit more depth on the actions after the war. Had I not picked up this book accidentally, I'd have never heard about SABU-70 and their story, which I find very sad. The courage needed to face the founding of the SAS and their role in helping to secure France plus their pursuits of the Gestapo.While it involves death and suffering and terrible acts of cruelty, it also highlights the enduring qualities of courage and loyalty, of kindness and humanity, resourcefulness and resilience - qualities of which today's world is much in need. In doing so, the Special Air Service would be tested as never before during the pivotal D-Day landings, and the quest for vengeance that followed. 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. We share the triumphs and tragedies of a group of elite soldier trailblazers as they commit daring raids behind enemy lines in 1944, manage an against the odds escape to victory, and then seek post-war retribution for the terrible murder of their captured comrades.

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There is no shortage of titles about the best-known of all British special forces (the author, an acknowledged expert on the SAS, has written several), but given readers’ apparent insatiable appetite for the subject, it is no surprise that they keep coming. 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.It is intense to read about their missions and everything they endured as captives of the nazi/SS that actually tortured them and executed many of the SAS soldiers.

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Damien Lewis, in this online event, will tell the tale of behind these group of soldiers in a story of courage, betrayal and the quest for justice. Damien Lewis is a number one bestselling author whose books have been translated into over forty languages worldwide. It bears all his hallmarks - an epic, page-turning special forces narrative based on hitherto unavailable personal testimony and private family archives. During a decade spent reporting from around the world Lewis lived in deserts, rainforests, jungles and chaotic third world cities. 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.SAS Band of Brothers tells the story of a dozen British soldiers who parachuted into occupied France in 1944. Some descriptive moments are tough to read, but the “life” of the team and its camaraderie is ever-present. The hunt for the killers forms the last part of the book, the author going beyond those directly involved in the execution of the SABU-70 raiders (of the 100 or so SAS raiders captured after D-Day, only a handful survived the war) and looks at the SAS’s own War Crimes Investigation Team (WCIT).



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