The Nazi Hunters - Couverture souple

Lewis, Damien

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1784293881 ISBN 13 : 9781784293888

Editeur : Quercus, 2015

Synopsis

The Nazi Hunters is the incredible, hitherto untold story of the most secret chapter in the SAS's history. Officially, the world's most elite special forces unit was dissolved at the end of the Second World War, and not reactivated until the 1950s. Among their last actions was a disastrous commando raid into occupied France in 1944, which ended in the capture, torture and execution of 31 soldiers.

It can now be revealed that the SAS never was dissolved: it lived on, commanded personally by Churchill and hidden even from the British government. They were tasked with hunting through the ruins of the Reich for the SS commanders responsible for the murder of their comrades, including many who had escaped the failed justice of the Nuremberg trials. Along the way, they discovered before anyone else the full horror of Hitler's regime, and the growing threat from Stalin's Russia.

Still studied by the SAS today and a central part of their founding myth, the story of the Nazi hunters is now told by bestselling author Damien Lewis.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Damien Lewis has written a dozen non-fiction books and thrillers, topping bestseller lists worldwide. His books include the Special Forces classics Operation Certain Death, Bloody Heroes and Cobra Gold, plus the Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller Zero Six Bravo. He has raised tens of thousands of pounds for services-related charities, and several of his books are being produced as feature films.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Praise for Damien Lewis

'Modern drama at its best'
Mail on Sunday

'A real gem of modern history.
Poignant and beautifully told'
Sun

'As good as any thriller I have ever read'
Frederick Forsyth

'A tale of bravery against desperate odds'
Sunday Times

'A humbling, inspiring account of some of the real founders of modern Special Forces soldiering'
Bear Grylls

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

In the late summer of 1944 sixty SAS were parachuted into the Vosges Mountains of northeastern France - the last bulwark of the defences of Hitler's Reich. There the Fuhrer had ordered his forces make a last-ditch stand, to prevent the Allies from marching into the Fatherland. Dropped some five hundred kilometres behind enemy lines, the SAS were tasked with wreaking havoc and bloody mayhem, ensuring that Hitler's do-or-die defence would fail.
From the very start these sixty men were hunted by thousands of crack German troops, their mission earning the repute of being 'the SAS's Arnhem.' At mission's end thirty-one SAS were listed as "missing - fate unknown". In truth, they faced a horrific fate at the hands of their captors.

The man who had commanded this mission refused to let their killers escape justice. Faced with the post-war disbandment of the SAS, Colonel Brian Franks MC formed a top-secret, clandestine SAS unit. Under the auspices of Winston Churchill, this deniable "Man Hunting" force was paid and equipped from out of a black budget in a deep-cover operation lasting through 1948 and beyond. Across war-ravaged Europe they hunted down the Nazi war criminals, plus those who had run the notorious concentration camps, stumbling upon some of the darkest secrets of the new war - the Cold War.
Known as 'The Secret Hunters', this force was peopled by a cast of characters more extraordinary than any fiction: Captain Henry Druce, who waged war from his jeep in a silk top hat and corduroys; Captain John Hislop, a champion jockey who was evicted from his former regiment for showing a 'regrettable lack of military aptitude'; and Russian Prince Yurka Galitzine, the fabulously well-connected grandmaster of black operations. Still studied by the SAS today, The Nazi Hunters are a founding part of the Regiment's myth, constituting one of the great untold stories of the Second World War.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Quercus
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1784293881
• ISBN 13: 9781784293888
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 448
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible