Join bestselling author Damien Lewis for the launch of his new book that charts the SAS's formative years during the Second World War. A superbly written account of the early days of the SAS during the North African desert campaign in WW2.

Damien Lewis is the author of numerous books, which include his SAS series comprised of Bravo Three Zero: The SAS Patrol That Got Away, Great Escapes: Seven Incredible Escapes by Second World War Heroes, Band of Brothers: The Last Stand of the SAS and Their Hunt for the Nazi Killers, Shadow Raiders: The Ultra-Secret Mission That Changed the Course of WWII, Ghost Patrol: The Ultra-Secret Unit That Posed as Nazi Stormtroopers, Italian Job: The Secret Mission to Storm a Forbidden Nazi Fortress, and his latest SAS Brothers in Arms, a book based on letters, diary entries, mission reports, and interviews with surviving WWII SAS veterans and their families.

Trading Address (Warehouse) Unit E, Vulcan Business Complex, Vulcan Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 3EB. 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). Lloyd Owen, the commander of the LRDG said their combined personalities were almost terrifying in their effect. 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. In Lewis's hands, we have a compelling story of unconventional people blazing unconventional paths in unconventional times for the greater good.

It bears all his hallmarks – an epic, page-turning special forces narrative based on hitherto unavailable personal testimony and private family archives. At Books2Door, we believe that reading is a fundamental skill that every child should have to help improve their vocabulary, grammar, and critical thinking skills. 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. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Led by Captain Patrick Garstin MC, a man supposedly invalided out of the military due to his war injuries, rarely had a wilder bunch of raiders been assembled. One in particular caught my eye, to someone who fought and made it back too:Hughie Canavan22nd May 1919 - 19th Nov 200811th Scottish CommandoLitani River 1941Sicily 1943Placed Here By His Loving Family22nd May, also my brother Peter's birthday. 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.

Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. Hughie Canavan would have been 22 years old, charging into the Mediterranean in full kit under heavy fire to make it ashore and then to capture a key objective, the Qasmiye Bridge over the Litani River in Syria. His widely-acclaimed WWII elite forces series includes The Nazi Hunters, SAS Ghost Patrol, SAS Italian Job/Churchill's Hellraisers and Churchill’s Secret Warriors, which is being developed as a movie series by Paramount Pictures.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.