Wimborne Literary Festival: SAS Great Escapes Five, by Damien Lewis

Wimborne Literary Festival is proud to launch Damien Lewis' latest book.In the spirit of previous volumes, Damien Lewis reveals the untold stories of the wars most daring and audacious escapes as executed by the worlds most famous fighting force, the SAS. Reaching back into the earliest origins of the SAS legend, and Operation Colossus, this volume opens with a series of death-defying escapes in Italy, where bluff, deception and audacity won the day. It moves on to an incredible solo escape across the sun-blasted Sahara Desert, as Jack Sillito, long given up for dead, achieved the seemingly impossible - walking 180 miles with no food or water, to safety. It goes on to chronicle one of the most successful raids by the SAS deep behind enemy lines in Italy, and how Stokes a badly injured veteran of that mission used the secret escape lines of the Vatican to make it back to Allied lines, in a tale replete with cloak-and-dagger intrigue. 'Damien Lewis is both a meticulous historian and a born storyteller - Lee Child.Advance booking recommended. Tickets also on the door, if available; cash and cards accepted. Box office closes 30 minutes after start of event. Bar open. This event is seated.
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