SAS Great Escapes

Seven Great Escapes Made by Real Second World War Heroes

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SAS Great Escapes

By: Damien Lewis

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

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No food. No water. Out of ammo. Safety is south. But between there and here is 150 miles of barren desert – freezing at night, boiling in the day – populated solely by Ernst Rommel’s fearsome and deadly Afrika Corps.

What would you do?

Give up? Or get on with it?

For the seven SAS supermen in Damien Lewis’s explosive new audio exclusive, the answer was simple: Escape. Evade. Survive. From the mountains of Italy, to the deserts of Africa, these heroes epitomise the bravery, esprit de corps and daring do of Britain’s finest elite fighting force.

Fans of Ant Middleton’s First Man In and Ben MacIntyre’s SAS: Rogue Heroes are in for a treat, as the SAS’s master chronicler, Damien Lewis, has produced a gripping, heart-in-the-mouth, real-life thriller. A Sunday Times number one best-selling author, this fresh look at the most audacious escapes the SAS made in the Second World War is white-knuckle listening of the highest calibre.

Because if you put a fence in front of these men...they’ll climb it.

Europe

Great Britain

Military

War

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Africa

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<i>SAS Great Escapes</i> by Damien Lewis

SAS Great Escapes by Damien Lewis
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Meet the man behind the medals, Captain Roy Alexander Farran

Discover the lie that changed Corporal Jack Vincent Byrne's life forever

Learn how Lieutenant Thomas Bennett Langton's childhood shaped his career

SAS Great Escapes by Damien Lewis
Meet the man behind the medals, Captain Roy Alexander Farran

Discover the lie that changed Corporal Jack Vincent Byrne's life forever

Learn how Lieutenant Thomas Bennett Langton's childhood shaped his career

Operation Overview | 1. Nikaia, Athens, Greece. Date: August 1941. SAS Superman: Captain Roy Alexander Farran, 3rd The King’s Own Hussars.| 2. Benghazi Plain, Eastern Libya. Date: March 1942. SAS Superman: Corporal Jack Vincent Byrne, Gordon Highlanders. | 3. Tobruk, North-East Libya. Date: September 1942. SAS Superman: Lieutenant Thomas Bennett Langton, Irish Guards. | 4. Porto San Giórgio, Northern Italy. Date: September 1943. SAS Superman: Sergeant John Edward ‘Jim’ Almonds, Coldstream Guards. | 5. River Tiber, Central Italy. Date: January 1944. SAS Superman: Lieutenant James ‘Jimmy’ Quentin Hughes, 208 Anti-Aircraft Training Regiment. | 6. Oise, Northern France. Date: September 1944. SAS Superman: Corporal Serge Vaculik, 3rd Parachute Chasseur Regiment. |7. Vosges Mountains, France. Date: July 1944. SAS Superman: Flight Officer Ronald Lewis ‘Lew’ Fiddick, Royal Canadian Air Force.

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Watch our exclusive interview with Damien Lewis as he discusses SAS Great Escapes.

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About the author

Award-winning author Damien Lewis has penned over a dozen books, topping best seller lists worldwide. His WWII special forces books are a publishing phenomenon, and several are being made into movies or TV series. He also scripts his own work as films. His modern elite forces books include the No. 1 best seller Zero Six Bravo, and his man-and-dog at war true stories include the phenomenally successful War Dog, which is being developed as a movie. He also writes thrillers, and his first, Cobra Gold, is being made into a film by LA-based Safadi Entertainment.

About the performer

Leighton Pugh studied German and Italian at The Queen’s College, Oxford before training at LAMDA. Leighton's many stage credits include The Lehman Trilogy, Macbeth and The Birthday Party, amongst others. For audio, Leighton has lent his voice to a myriad of fiction and non-fiction tomes, from Ragnar Jonasson’s ‘Dark Iceland’ crime series to The New Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan and Talking to My Daughter About the Economy by Yanis Veroufakis. His radio credits include Scenes from Provincial Life, Murder by the Book and The Tragical Adventures of Heinrich von Kleist.

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