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

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Some descriptive moments are tough to read, but the “life” of the team and its camaraderie is ever-present. Churchill’s Band of Brothers offers a spotlight into an important but sometimes overlooked area of Britain’s fight against the Nazi menace. 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. That fiction was followed up by Cobra Gold, an equally compelling tale of global drama and intrigue and shadowy betrayal. This book follows one unit of the SAS, known as the SABU-70 and led by Captain Patrick Garstin, on two missions into occupied France after D-Day, to sabotage German troops as they retreated.

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to prevent Hitler from rushing his Panzer divisions to the DDay beaches and driving the Allies back into the sea.

The books featured on this site are aimed primarily at readers aged 13 or above and therefore you must be 13 years or over to sign up to our newsletter. uk/landing-page/quercus/quercus-company-information/">The data controller is Quercus Editions Ltd. 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). An engaging and oft-times sobering account of the British SAS patrol SABU-70 and its insertion behind enemy lines before and after D-Day of World War II.

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This is a thrilling and very specific book, and the clue that it is not a general account of the SAS lies in the subtitle, The Last Stand of the SAS and the Hunt for their Nazi Killers. It ends with the hunted becoming the hunters - a group of men intent on seeking out the Nazis responsible for their brethren's deaths, on an ultra-deniable SAS mission to avenge a war crime. In the summer of 1943, the largest invasion fleet ever assembled sailed for fortress Europe, aiming to bulldoze its way onto Nazi shores.

The author also discusses the role of 190 and 620 Squadrons, flying four-engine Short Stirling bombers which, although obsolete as heavy bombers, performed superbly in their new role of dropping special forces and agents behind enemy lines, and undertaking airdrops to resistance groups. In a country crawling with the enemy, their mission is to prevent Hitler from rushing his Panzer divisions to the D-Day beaches and driving the Allies back into the sea. What followed was a certain group of men to fined the truth to such deaths (murder) and find those responsible and bring to justice! 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. Having blown to pieces scores of prize targets, Garstin’s patrol executed one of the most daring escapes of the war … only to fall victim to shocking betrayal.

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Miraculously, two escaped, triggering one of the most-extraordinary Nazi-hunting operations, in an unrelenting bid to seek out those responsible for the deaths of their comrades.The courage needed to face the founding of the SAS and their role in helping to secure France plus their pursuits of the Gestapo.

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That said I enjoyed the book and had not been aware of their exploits until now despite reading many a book on this subject. But, unfortunately, the Germans had a secret initiative of their own: a fiendishly simple but successful way of entrapping Allied parachutists. Miraculously, two of the condemned men managed to escape, triggering one of the most secretive Nazi-hunting operations ever, as the SAS vowed to track down every one of the war criminals who had murdered their brothers in arms .Like all such missions, it was part of the top-secret BIGOT initiative — the acronym said to have been coined by Churchill, standing for 'British Invasion of German Occupied Territory'. In June 1944 my father, Captain Patrick Garstin MC, led a band of warriors into war to help liberate Europe. 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.

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