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One of WWIIs most daring Allied D-Day missions and the hunt for Hitlers war criminals is brought to breathtaking life by award-winning, bestselling war reporter Damien Lewis.
Award-winning, bestselling author Damien Lewis explores one of WWIIs most remarkable Special Forces missions during the Normany landings on D-Dayand the extraordinary hunt that followed to take down a cadre of fugitive SS and Gestapo war criminals.

On the night of June 13th, 1944, a twelve-man SAS unit parachuted into occupied France. Their objective: hit German forces deep behind the lines, cutting the rail-tracks linking Central France to the northern coastline. In a country crawling with enemy troops, their mission was to prevent Hitler from rushing his Panzer divisions to the D-Day beaches and driving the Allied troops back into the sea. It was a Herculean task, but no risk was deemed too great to stop the Nazi assault. In daring to win it all, the SAS patrol were ultimately betrayed, captured, and tortured by the Gestapo before facing execution in a dark French woodland on Hitlers personal orders. Miraculously, two of the condemned men managed to escape, triggering one of the most-secretive Nazi-hunting operations ever, as the SAS vowed to track down every one of the war criminals who had murdered their brothers in arms . . . all with Churchills covert backing.
With Nazi Germanys lightning seizure of much of Western Europe, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had called for the formation of specially trained troops of the hunter class. Their purpose was to incite a reign of terror across enemy-occupied Europe. Churchills warriors were to shatter all known rules of warfare, taking the fight to the enemy with no holds barred. In doing so, the Special Air Service would be tested as never before during the pivotal D-Day landings, and the quest for vengeance that followed.
Breathtaking and exhaustively researched, Churchills Band of Brothers is based upon a raft of new and unseen material provided by the families of those who were there. It reveals the untold story of one of the most daring missions of WWII, that not only had ramifications for the war itself, but lead to the most extraordinary and gripping of aftermaths.

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D AMIEN L EWIS

Churchills Shadow Raiders

Churchills Hellraisers

Churchills Band of Brothers
CHURCHILLS BAND OF
WWIIs Most Daring D-Day Mission and the Hunt to Take Down Hitlers Fugitive War Criminals
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Copyright 2020 Omega Ventures Maps Bill Swainson

First published in Great Britain in 2020 by Quercus,
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All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of the publisher, excepting brief quotes used in reviews.

Every effort has been made to contact copyright holders. However, the publishers will be glad to rectify in future editions any inadvertent omissions brought to their attention.

CITADEL PRESS and the Citadel logo are Reg. U.S. Pat. & TM Off.
ISBN: 978-0-8065-4136-5
Electronic edition:

ISBN-13: 978-0-8065-4138-9 (e-book)
ISBN-10: 0-8065-4138-5 (e-book)

PICTURE CREDITS
1, 6, 16 Imperial War Museum/Public Domain: 2 Public Domain: 3, 28, 34 Mayne family
private collection: 4, 5, 8, 10, 11, 18, 20 Dumfries Museum: 7 Paradata/Airborne Assault Museum:
9 National Army Museum/Public Domain: 12, 22, 26 Sean Garstin: 13 Collection Adrien
et Antoinette Wiehe, Source Lieutenant John H. Wiehe (19161965) Album Illustr STREAK
DESIGNS Ltd & CORTRA Ltd (2016): 14 Alamy: 15, 25 German Federal Archive/Public
Domain: 17, 19 USAAF Archives/Public Domain: 21, 27 Air Commando/Serge Vaculik: 23 Getty
Images: 24 Bundesarchiv, Bild 101III-Alber-096-11/Alber, Kurt/CC-BY-SA 3.0: 29, 36, 37 National
Archives: 30, 38 Courtesy of the family of Eric Bill Barkworth: 31, 33, 39 Phil Rhodes:
32 Simon Kinder: 35, 40 Chris Drakes: 41 James Irvine
For Captain Patrick Garstin, MC and the men
of the SABU-70 patrol those who made it home again
and those who did not.

And for all those drawn into the Nacht und Nebel
the night and fog.
The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

Henry David Thoreau
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Authors Note There are sadly few survivors from the Second World War operations - photo 4
Authors Note There are sadly few survivors from the Second World War operations - photo 5
Authors Note There are sadly few survivors from the Second World War operations - photo 6
Authors Note
There are sadly few survivors from the Second World War operations depicted in these pages. Throughout the period of researching and writing this book I have sought to be in contact with as many as possible, plus surviving family members of those who have passed away. If there are further witnesses to the stories told here who are inclined to come forward, please do get in touch, as I will endeavour to include further recollections of the operations portrayed in this book in future editions.
The time spent by Allied servicemen and women as Special Service volunteers was often traumatic and wreathed in layers of secrecy, and many chose to take their stories to their graves. Memories tend to differ and apparently none more so than those concerning operations behind enemy lines. The written accounts that do exist tend to differ in their detail and timescale, and locations and chronologies are sometimes contradictory. Nevertheless, I have endeavoured to provide an accurate sense of place, timescale and narrative to the story as depicted in these pages.
Where various accounts of a mission appear to be particularly confused, the methodology I have used to reconstruct where, when and how events took place is the most likely scenario. If two or more testimonies or sources point to a particular time or place or sequence of events, I have opted to use that account as most likely.
The above notwithstanding, any mistakes herein are entirely of my own making, and I would be happy to correct any in future editions. Likewise, while I have attempted to locate the copyright holders of the photos, sketches and other images and material used in this book, this has not always been straightforward or easy. Again, I would be happy to correct any mistakes in future editions.
Some of those individuals who took part in Operation Toby 3 may also have been part of the previous SABU-70 mission, at Dourdan and tampes. In spite of exhaustive researches, I have been unable to verify the exact make-up of SAS Captain Garstins stick his patrol during that first mission, other than those names that I have mentioned in the text. If any reader is able to shed clarity on this point, please do get in touch.
Curiously, I can find no official report or war diary entry dealing with SABU-70s first mission. Not all small-scale raids were documented, of course, and most if not all of the men on that mission were subsequently captured or killed or forced to go on the run. There are several first-hand accounts of the mission, including ones written by Vaculik, Wiehe and Jones, the key survivors. Those accounts corroborate each other on many levels. Still, I would be keen to learn more about SABU-70s first mission.
Chapter 1
Barely a week after the D-Day landings the shadowed form of the Short Stirling heavy bomber clawed into the unseasonable June skies, getting airborne under cover of darkness. Hunched over the controls in the dimly lit cockpit of this often underrated yet peculiarly graceful warplane was the pilot for tonight, Flight Sergeant Sutherland, a man who would go on to win a Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) before the year was out, during the ill-fated airborne missions over Arnhem, on Operation Market Garden.
Sutherland and his crew were on no bombing mission this 13 June night. The first four-engine heavy to see service with the RAF, the Stirling had been deemed largely obsolete by 1942, as the Avro Lancaster came into service. But this iconic warplane had gone on to acquire a second lease of life, as the foremost aircraft delivering SAS raiding parties, plus agents of the SOE the Special Operations Executive, more commonly known as Churchills Ministry for Ungentlemanly Warfare deep into enemy-occupied lands.
Tonights was a hybrid mission born of those two outfits: it was very much an SAS undertaking, but one orchestrated by the SOE, who had arranged both the drop-zone and the reception party that should be waiting on the ground.
As a lone aircraft flying low at night across hundreds of miles of hostile airspace to an at best uncertain rendezvous, the Stirling had proven a remarkably tough and reliable workhorse, one able to take considerable punishment. Despite her size and weight, the aircraft had also shown herself to be surprisingly nimble and manoeuvrable when forced to shake off the Luftwaffe night-fighters, or evade the enemys deadly radar-directed searchlights and flak. Considering the Stirlings sheer dimensions at just short of 70 feet from nose to tail, she was a good 16 feet longer than the Lancaster, and stood higher off the ground this was no mean achievement for such an imposing warplane.
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