A larger than life character who the French SAS referred to as l’armoire – the wardrobe, after a game of rugby and le grand tueur – the Great Killer because of his fighting abilities. This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in black cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine.

Dropped hundreds of kilometres behind enemy lines, they were tasked with wreaking havoc and bloody mayhem, ensuring that Hitler's do-or-die stand would fail. They hungered to pit themselves against a seemingly omnipotent enemy and brave a bloody and bruising baptism by fire. With nonfiction as a reader, you have to like the subject you're reading, but it's even better when you're reading actual history about the SAS, then find the main characters that the author picks out to focus on and you like them.This approach not only adds depth to the narrative but also allows readers to develop a genuine connection with the characters. What unfolded – the longest mission ever undertaken by Allied special forces – was an epic of daring, courage, tragedy and survival that remains unrivalled to this day, and which rightly became a foundation stone of Special Forces legend.

A good yarn, based on the sources and for once accurately and evenly told (looking at you SAS Rogue Heroes). Damien Lewis's new bestseller tells the action-packed, riveting story of the band of mavericks and visionaries who made the SAS. 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. Among his other acclaimed works is Slave, an international bestseller that was adapted into a film and play. The book ends with the SAS entering a new chapter in its history and I look forward to the next book, as Mayne takes the SAS to a new field of action after finishing its work in North Africa.Anyone who wants to learn more about the origins of the British Special Forces should read this book.

Stirling and Mayne, two very different warriors and personalities, complemented each other in their approaches to how to conduct wrecking havoc in enemy territory.uk/landing-page/quercus/quercus-company-information/">The data controller is Quercus Editions Ltd. 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. His previous publications include: 'Churchill’s Secret Warriors', 'Hunting The Nazi Bomb', 'SAS Band of Brothers' and 'SAS Great Escapes'. Lewis's writing style is both engaging and authoritative, taking readers on a thrilling journey through some of the most daring operations of the war. Well, few know more about the heroics, history and histrionics surrounding Robert Blair Mayne, someone whom fellow soldier Joe Welch described as ".

Lewis suggests this was a result of the ruthless logic of war in the dark days of 1941, when Britain had its back to the wall. In June 1944 my father, Captain Patrick Garstin MC, led a band of warriors into war to help liberate Europe.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. This book shares the story of Churchill’s Special Services, commonly known as the SAS, in Italy and Africa. However, the author destroys this argument showing Mayne to be an erudite, self-effacing officer, who cared passionately about his men.