ALSO BY DAMIEN LEWIS
World War Two:
War Dog
Judy: A Dog in a Million
Churchill’s Secret Warriors
The Nazi Hunters
Hunting Hitler’s Nukes
SAS: Ghost Patrol
Smoky the Brave
Modern Day Elite Forces:
Operation Certain Death
Bloody Heroes
Cobra 405
Zero Six Bravo
Operation Relentless
Co-authored by Damien Lewis:
Sergeant Rex
It’s All About Treo
Fire Strike 7/9
Operation Mayhem
X Platoon
Homeland
A Dog Called Hope
CHURCHILL’S HELLRAISERS
A SECRET MISSION TO STORM A FORBIDDEN NAZI FORTRESS
Damien Lewis
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Table of Contents
Also by Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Author’s Note Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Epilogue Afterword Acknowledgements APPENDIX ONE APPENDIX TWO Bibliography BLIND VETERANS UK
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ISBN: 978-0-8065-4074-0
Library of Congress Control Number: 2019951394
Electronic edition:
ISBN-13: 978-0-8065-4076-4 (e-book)
ISBN-10: 0-8065-4076-1 (e-book)
PICTURE CREDITS 1.
Credit/©: Imperial War Museum 2. Credit/©: National Archives and Records Administration. 3. Credit/©: James Selby Bennett 4. Credit/©: http://wio.ru/galgrnd/podryvnk.htm 5. Credit/©: UK Government 6. Credit/©: UK Government 7. Credit/©: Wikimedia 8. Credit/©: Imperial War Museum 9. Credit/©: Don North, from Inappropriate Conduct 10. Credit/©: Don North, from Inappropriate Conduct 11. Credit/©: Don North, from Inappropriate Conduct 12. Credit/©: Don North, from Inappropriate Conduct 13. Credit/©: German Federal Archive. 14. Credit/©: Imperial War Museum. 15. Credit/©: Imperial War Museum 16. Credit/©: German Federal Archive 17. Credit/©: Nikki Cartlidge 18. Credit/©: WWII SAS veteran families 19. Credit/©: Lees family 20. Credit/©: National Defence Library and Archives Canada 21. Credit/©: Lees family 22. Credit/©: WWII SAS veteran families. 23. Credit/©: WWII SAS veteran families. 24. Credit/©: Wikimedia 25. Credit/©: Luke Griffiths 26. Credit/©: Lees family 27. Credit/©: Imperial War Museum 28. Credit/©: Imperial War Museum 29. Credit/©: Wikimedia 30.
For the fallen of the SAS and SOE as depicted in these pages
Major Neville ‘Temple’ Darewski DSO, SOE
Major Ross Littlejohn MC, SAS
Lieutenant James Riccomini MBE MC, SAS
Serjeant Sidney Guscott, SAS
Corporal Sammy Bolden MM, SAS
Corporal Joseph Crowley, SAS
Lance Corporal Robert Bruce (Balerdi), SAS
And for Michael Lees, SOE, who was
denied a Military Cross at war’s end.
Attack on the German 14 Army Villa Headquarters (Adapted from Major Farran’s official report on Operation Tombola)
Allied Assault on the Gothic Line