Forged in Hell (eBook)

The Gripping True Story of the Special Forces Heroes Who Broke the Nazi Stranglehold

Damien Lewis (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
400 Seiten
Citadel Press (Verlag)
978-0-8065-4272-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Combining riveting combat writing with masterful research, award-winning historian and #1 internationally bestselling author Damien Lewis delivers the remarkable true story of Britain's infamous, elite Special Air Service (SAS) forces, their legendary commander, and the impossibly daring, historic mission to liberate Europe via the largest invasion fleet ever assembled. July 1943: The largest invasion fleet ever assembled sailed for fortress Europe, aiming to bulldoze its way onto Nazi shores. At its vanguard went a few hundred elite forces soldiers. The Royal Navy warship carrying thema former passenger ferry transformed for battlebore the iconic winged dagger emblem carved on its prow, plus the motto ';Who Dares Wins,' painstakingly fashioned with the most rudimentary tools by Sergeant William ';Bill' Deakins, the foremost explosives expert on board and a Royal Engineer by trade. Led by the SAS commander Blair ';Paddy' Mayne, these war-bitten, piratical raiders were tasked with the impossibleto be the first among the fleetthe very tip of the spearto bludgeon their way through the most heavily defended enemy shoreline, enabling the ensuing forces to follow on. If they succeeded, it would mark the turning point in the war. If they failed, the consequences were unthinkable. Against all odds, outnumbered some fifty-to-one, and facing a ferocious series of cliffside defenses, they would have to dare all as never before. So begins the true story of the SAS's incredible mission, an endeavor replete with surprise, shock, action, heroism, and glory, not to mention treachery, dismayand the longstanding personal aftershocks of brutal and bloody years spent at war.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.10.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Schlagworte: Adolph Hitler • afrika korpsmiddle east commando • Australia • british sas • Churchill book • Churchill history • churchill’s secret warriors book • churchill:walking with destiny book • elite ww2 warriors • father’s day • fathers day • fighting the nazis • Fortress Europe • gift for dad • gifts for fathers • gifts for men • Greatest Generation • historic invasion • historic invasion fleet • hms glenroy • legendry sas commander • liberators • military history • ministry of ungentlemanly warfare • Nazi defeat • Nazi Germany • Nazi occupation • nazi occupied europe • occupied france • occupied italy • operation flipper • Paddy Mayne • parachuting • piratical raiders • pow camps • pow stories • PTSD • raf airfield • Rommel • royal navy warship • SAS • scottish commando operation crusader • secret forces • special air service battalion • Special Forces • special forces brothers in arms • special forces soldiering • SRS • survival stories • the chronik • the regiment book • the splendid and the vile book • Third Reich • tip of the spear • Trauma • Ungentlemanly Warfare • war thriller • Who Dares Wins • winged dagger • winning WWII • Winston Churchill • World History • ww2 heroes • ww2 history • ww2 missions • WWII Thriller
• ISBN-10: 0-8065-4272-1 / 0806542721
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8065-4272-0 / 9780806542720