From #1 internationally bestselling author, war reporter, and
award-winning historian Damien Lewis, the thrillingly-told stories of
the seven most daring WWII escapes executed by the legendary British
fighting force known as the Special Air Force or SAS, a unit that
specialized in raids and answered to Churchill.
No food. No water. Out of ammo. Hunted and on the run. The dreaded
certainty of discovery looming between recapture and safe haven. What
would you do? Give up? For the seven heroes of Churchill's Great
Escapes the answer was simple: keep moving against all odds. These are
the extraordinary stories of the bravery and endurance of the men of
SAS, legendary pioneers of escape and evasion who, through the darkest
of days and nights of World War II, endeavored and succeeded in slipping
through the clutches of the enemy.
From the earliest years of the war to its explosive closing stages
readers are plunged into the dark heart of Mussolini's Fascist Italy,
held captive in a heavily fortified POW camp in Greece and in the
coastal fortress of Tobruk in Occupied Libya. Whether scaling the
treacherous war-torn Vosges Mountains in France or crossing one hundred
and fifty miles of sun-blasted Sahara Desert crawling with General Ernst
Rommel's fearsome Afrika Korps, it took cunning, incredible courage and
die-hard fearlessness to pull off these exhilarating escapes. Based upon
in-the-moment personal diaries and notebooks, mission reports,
debriefings and letters, Damien Lewis recounts the most terrifying and
adrenaline-fueled days and nights in the lives of men for whom survival
was the only option. We follow every desperate step, facing unknowable
threats and death around every corner, and share in the breathtaking
endurance that brought them freedom against the most formidable of
threats: the seemingly invincible Nazi war machine.
An authentically gripping roller-coaster ride*, Churchill's Great
Escapes* extols the uncommon bravery of these heroes who epitomize the
esprit de corps and daring of Britain's finest elite fighting forces. It
is true-life white-knuckle adventure of the highest caliber.
