SNLF: Damien Lewis on Great Escapes 4 – stories of extraordinary escapes by the SAS in WW2

  
When:Sat 14-Jun-2025 @ 19:00
Where:The Exchange, Sturminster Newton
1 Old Market Hill
Sturminster Newton
Dorset
DT10 1QU
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SAS Great Escapes Four recounts how soldiers of the world’s most famous fighting force, the SAS, carried out some of the most daring escapes of World War Two. Ranging from the infamous desert campaign of 1944 to the unforgiving terrain of the Vosges Mountains, these inspirational narratives include the tale of three Captains escaping an Italian Prisoner of War Camp in 1943; a perilous escape across Europe aided by the Resistance networks of Holland, Belgium; and a death-defying return to Britain via boat, tunnel and train.

Each account plunges the reader into the escapees’ experiences – sharing the most terrifying yet astounding moments of their lives. They include unimaginable accounts of survival in the face of huge odds, episodes of nerve-wracking bluff and deception, plus knife-edge ambushes with enemy forces determined to wreak vengeance.

In this new volume of his bestselling Great Escapes series, author Damien Lewis has worked closely with World War Two veterans and the families of those portrayed, accessing wartime diaries, letters, mission reports, interrogation transcripts and more, to relate how the men of the SAS were hunted by the enemy but successfully evaded certain death or final capture with courage and skill.


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