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More than 150 miles behind enemy lines, the SAS raiders slipped noiselessly into the trees. Serge “Frenchy” Vaculik, Thomas “Ginger” Jones and Paddy Barker formed one party. They picked their way through the forest towards where they knew the German ammunition dump had to lie. It was just days
Staring down the barrel of the 9mm pistol, Serge Vaculik felt his innards turn to ice. He had to hope the Gestapo officer was bluffing, although it didn’t look that way. There was spittle at the corners of his mouth, like a rabid dog. SS Hauptsturmführer Richard Schnur thrust the Luger into ...
Sunlight filtered through the woodland as the first of the SAS captives - troopers Billy Young, Joe Walker, Pat Barker and Sergeant Thomas Varey - were lined up by armed German guards. Driven in army trucks from Paris, where they'd been held at Gestapo's HQ, there was no mistaking what was ...
Damien features on a number of podcasts and interviews, discussing his work, which you can find here: History Hit on AcastMidas Culture Shot podcast with Sky News editor Ben Monro-Davies on SpotifyBBC Radio 5 Interview on SAS Band of Brothers - Start: 2h19m. Second ...
Author Interview
What first attracted you to the period or periods you work in?I write mostly about World War Two and immediately post war history. The attraction for me is that World War Two is generally speaking one of the only modern day conflicts in which survival of modern civilisation and democracy were at stake – so the stakes could not ...
Your book SAS Forged in Hell, tells the story of the part 1 SAS played in the Sicily and Italian campaigns of World War II. Could you start by telling us about the role they carried out under their commander Major Blair ‘Paddy’ Mayne in those campaigns, which were very different to the operations they ...