Brothers in Arms

Churchill's Special Forces During WWII's Darkest Hour

By: Damien Lewis

Narrated by: Peter Noble

In 1941, as World War Two raged, scores of men stepped forward to answer Winston Churchill's call for volunteers for Special Service, a high-risk opportunity to undertake the most hazardous, top-secret duties of war. Comprised of some of the finest fighting units in the entire British Army, these warriors longed to leave behind their mind-numbing garrison duties for battle. A rightfully proud regiment with an unrivaled esprit de corps, they were disavowed as unruly by top brass, unyieldingly vaunted by Churchill, and courageously loyal to the clandestine "butcher and bolt" raids that made their sacrifices—and their triumphs—legendary. But even as the combat-worn ranks of the SAS risked all to deliver the first resounding defeats on Nazi Germany, there were well-founded fears that their fortunes would change.

In Brothers in Arms, Damien Lewis pays tribute to the mavericks and visionaries who founded elite-forces soldiering—the SAS. Exhaustively researched from an invaluable trove of never-before-seen documents, wartime letters, diaries, mission reports, rare photos, undeveloped film, plus interviews with WWII veterans and their surviving families, Damien follows one close-knit band of men from the founding of the SAS through to the Italian landings, which truly turned the tide of the war.

©2022 Damien Lewis (P)2024 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Great WWII book about amazing heroes

As always Damien Lewis gives a stirring account about the SAS and their exploits. In this case about the formation of the SAS and their exploits in North Africa. This is a great book, but one minor caveat is that Lewis has covered a lot of the material in this book in some of his earlier works. Although this was a great refresher and did expand upon the stories of the SAS in their desert exploits. Still highly recommend!

The personal stories and insight

Great writing , interesting and intimate insights and the perennial story of the short sighted and self absorbed REMFs, a story which has been repeated for eons