His books include the WWII classics Churchill’s Secret Warriors, Hunting The Nazi Bomb, SAS Ghost Patrol, SAS Italian Job and SAS Band of Brothers. In conversation with SAS veteran Des Powell, Damien Lewis will reveal the action-packed story of the band of mavericks and visionaries who made the SAS. Churchill was a great supporter of the SAS and their saviour, He understood that the stodgy and moribund ways of waging war was not going to bring victory. Lloyd Owen, the commander of the LRDG said their combined personalities were almost terrifying in their effect. Viewed largely as human by those who shared her extraordinary life, Judy’s uncanny ability to sense danger, matched with her quick-thinking and impossible daring saved countless lives.

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. The origins of the SAS and its founding members will forever be remembered and revered through his books and telling. That fiction was followed up by Cobra Gold, an equally compelling tale of global drama and intrigue and shadowy betrayal.Damien Lewis has a unique way of bringing the characters of his books to vivid life almost to the point that you know them by the end of the book. Now doesn't that sound exactly like what would appeal to a rambunctious, piratical, enigmatic, shy yet impertinent loose cannon like Robert Blair Mayne? He's the man who gets the most focus here and after reading more about him as I was listening to this book, I appreciate that this book shows him in a light that truly exhibits his personality and values over past works that were quick to label him a mere thug. Reads like an adventure novel and the reader may be excused in forgetting that it is a history book.

While I do owe several of Damien Lewis WW2 books, 'Brothers In Arms', was my first read from the author, it won't be my last, really like his writing a lot and this one is one of my favorite reads of the 2023 books I've read.In Brothers in Arms, Damien Lewis pays tribute to the mavericks and visionaries who founded elite-forces soldiering-the SAS. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. 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. Both strong headed men were willing to put themselves in the line of fire, more often leading from the front than from behind, and Mayne especially would do anything to not leave a man behind. 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.

For me the heart of the book is the relationship between the founder of the SAS, David Stirling, and his second in command Blair ‘Paddy’ Mayne. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per conubia nostra, per inceptos hymenaeos. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. There is so much information packed into Brothers in Arms and I feel that it is a book which has been needed to be written for some time now as it presents the real and true stories of the men who made up the original SAS rather than regurgitating the half truths and inaccurate myths so often found in books on the subject. This book shares the story of Churchill’s Special Services, commonly known as the SAS, in Italy and Africa.He is also an acclaimed public speaker, being hailed by one corporate executive as being “a brilliant natural storyteller. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Well, few know more about the heroics, history and histrionics surrounding Robert Blair Mayne, someone whom fellow soldier Joe Welch described as ". He expertly weaves together firsthand accounts and documentary sources to convey the camaraderie and valour of the SAS and the dangers they overcame.