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First published in Great Britain in 2019 by Quercus as: SAS shadow raiders.

The incredible story of the radar wars - Britain's most secret battleIn the winter of 1941 an alien-seeming object was captured in a death-defying dash by an RAF reconnaissance pilot flying a lone unarmed Spitfire across the French coast. Balanced upon the cliffs near Le Havre was what appeared to be a giant convex dish, directed across the Channel at the war-torn British coastline.With Britain's cities being pounded by fearsome bombing raids,...

Damien Lewis is a journalist and documentary film maker and has spent twenty years reporting from conflict zones. He has worked for the Telegraph, the Guardian and the BBC. Slave and Operation Certain Death have both been Sunday Times bestsellers. He lives in London.

The SAS was officially dissolved after the war and not reactivated until the 1950s, but in the years between continued to operate under Churchill's direct instruction, hunting former-SS comanders across the ruins of the reich. This secretive chapter is presented in a revelatory light by the author of "Zero Six Bravo".

Damien Lewis has spent twenty years reporting from war, disaster and conflict zones around the world. He has written a dozen non-fiction and fiction books, topping bestseller lists worldwide, and is published in some thirty languages. Two of his books are being made into feature films.

The extraordinary, touching true story of Smoky, the smallest--and arguably bravest--dog of World War II In February 1944, as Japanese military advances threatened to overwhelm New Guinea, a tiny, four-pound Yorkshire Terrier was discovered hiding in the island's thick jungles. A total mystery as to her origins, she was adopted by US Army Air Force Corporal William "Bill" Wynne, an air-crewman in a photo reconnaissance squadron, becoming an ir...

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The story of a seemingly impossible SAS mission through wartime Italy, featuring the legendary David 'The Mad Piper' Kilpatrick.

The World's Smallest Dog with the World's Biggest Heart

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The story of a seemingly impossible SAS mission through wartime Italy, featuring the legendary David 'The Mad Piper' Kilpatrick.

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Damien Lewis is a journalist and documentary film maker and has spent twenty years reporting from conflict zones. He has worked for the Telegraph, the Guardian and the BBC. Slave and Operation Certain Death have both been Sunday Times bestsellers. He lives in London.

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In 1942 an SAS unit disguised themselves as Nazi storm troopers for a pivotal mission, with Churchill's enthusiastic blessing. This detailed account to the episode employs first-hand testimony from 92-year-old participant Jack Mann.

The World's Smallest Dog with the World's Biggest Heart

They claimed they were the A-Team - the guys who could get one of the world's most wanted men, notorious Russian arms-dealer Viktor Bout. More commonly known as 'The Merchant of Death', Bout was "Public Enemy No. 1" to the global intelligence agencies who hunted him, worth an alleged six billion dollars. For decades Bout had run a labyrinthine network of airlines selling weapons to fabulously wealthy dictators, bloodthirsty rebels and fearsome...

In this remarkable memoir, President Obamas Kenyan half-brother, twenty-seven-year-old George Obama, describes his unique struggles with family, tribe, inheritance, and redemption and the seminal influence his brother had on his own future.

The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller. This is the untold true story of the most desperate battle fought by British and allied Special Forces trapped behind enemy lines since World War Two.