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Jan 19, 2025 | 
aspectsofhistory.com | Bethany Hall |Damien Lewis
Mayne the SAS & the VCBlair ‘Paddy’ Mayne and a core of stalwarts were unwilling to let the history of this proud unit die with its dissolution. Instead, they took the Chronik of Schneeren town, unscrewed the brass bolts that held its spine together, removed the original pages – which would be carefully preserved for posterity – and within those massive leather covers they bound together the history of a unit.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
thecipherbrief.com | Damien Lewis
BOOK REVIEW: FORGED IN HELL: The Gripping True Story of the Special Forces Heroes Who Broke the Nazi StrangleholdBy Damien Lewis/Citadel PressReviewed by: C. “Kit” TurnerThe Reviewer — Christopher “Kit” Turner worked for 25 years as an undercover CIA officer in East Asia, South Asia, and Europe. After one risky deployment, he was awarded the Intelligence Star, a rare commendation for valor.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
thisismoney.co.uk | Damien Lewis
It was the afternoon of April 11, 1945 - day three of Paddy Force. Urged to 'achieve deeper penetration through the enemy lines', Blair 'Paddy' Mayne's SAS unit had a mammoth task as they continued their push into Nazi Germany. In a bitter and bloody showdown amid the defeat of the Third Reich, they faced hordes of fanatical Hitler Youth diehards, Volkssturm German militia units, elite paratroopers and members of the Waffen SS.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
dailymail.co.uk | Damien Lewis
The long column of heavily armed jeeps nosed into no-man's-land, the area sandwiched between American and German lines. To all sides the terrain was war-blasted, smoke-enshrouded and devoid of life. Ghosts seemed to stalk the landscape. At the wheel of one of the leading vehicles was a figure who looked more like a 'boy scout' than any hardened SAS warrior. Alec 'Boy' Borrie had joined the Gordon Highlanders claiming to be eighteen, but was barely sixteen.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
dailymail.co.uk | Damien Lewis
As the SAS battled their way across Nazi-occupied France, Corporal Charlie Hackney – a veteran of the unit – had settled upon a 'novel way of subverting the enemy'. He and his self-confessed 'subdued bunch of cutthroats' from the elite regiment founded by David Stirling in 1941 had seized a red Renault butcher's van, transforming it into a battle wagon.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
aspectsofhistory.com | Damien Lewis |Alan Bardos
Your book SAS Forged in Hell, tells the story of the part 1 SAS played in the Sicily and Italian campaigns of World War II. Could you start by telling us about the role they carried out under their commander Major Blair ‘Paddy’ Mayne in those campaigns, which were very different to the operations they carried out in North Africa and the context around it? After David Stirling’s capture in February ‘43 there were fresh attempts made to disband the SAS.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
allocine.fr | Guy Ritchie |Paul Tamasy |Damien Lewis |Eric Johnson
AccueilCinémaTous les filmsFilms Action Le Ministère de la Sale Guerre sur Amazon Prime Video | 2h 00min | Action, Comédie De Guy Ritchie | Par Guy Ritchie, Paul Tamasy Avec Henry Cavill, Alan Ritchson, Alex Pettyfer Titre original The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare noter : 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5 Synopsis L'histoire de la toute première organisation de forces spéciales créée pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale par le Premier ministre britannique Winston Churchill et un petit groupe...
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
dailymail.co.uk | Damien Lewis
Two black Citroen saloon cars – typical Gestapo vehicles – crawled through the narrow Brittany lanes, the drivers clearly lost. Moment later their occupants – all Gestapo agents – were dead or running for their lives. A flaming projectile tore apart the first vehicle, turning it into a ball of searing fire, and bullets raked the second. Four men bailed out and ran. Three were captured by their assailants, but the last managed to slip away.
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May 23, 2024 | 
dailymail.co.uk | Damien Lewis
Captain Bob Walker-Brown had parachuted into this remote part of northern Italy with 33 members of the SAS under his command. Their mission was to wreak utter havoc and mayhem in the enemy's rear, so provoking Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, Hitler's commander in chief in Italy, to send in thousands of troops to hunt them down. As the bait in a trap, the SAS commander and his men were poised to launch their first, fearsome ambush. There was no better man to lead such a mission.
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Jan 6, 2024 | 
express.co.uk | Damien Lewis
The last of the SAS 'Originals': Mike Sadler 1920-2024Major Mike Sadler's death brings down the curtain on the elite regiment's founding members. 10:22, Sat, Jan 6, 2024 | UPDATED: 10:22, Sat, Jan 6, 2024 Link copied Bookmark Mike Sadler in the SAS (Image: John Lawrence)Spending time with any surviving Second World War veteran is an immense privilege. But Alec Borrie, Jack Mann and Mike Sadler, who died aged 103 on Thursday, were especially inspirational.
