''Damien Lewis is both a meticulous historian and a born storyteller'' Lee Child
Against insurmountable odds, SAS men crossed deserts, evaded revenge and escaped through enemy lands.
Lieutenant Bill Fraser and the six SAS men he led were listed as Missing in Action (MIA) after their failure to return from a raid. Nine weeks later they emerged from a death-defying sojourn across the Sahara Desert, after evading and confounding the enemy.
The eccentric and gifted commander Lord George Jellicoe and the group of five SAS men he led carried out a raid on the German aerodrome at Heraklion, destroying an incredible seventy warplanes. Only one man - Jellicoe, managed to get away.
Some two-hundred SAS raiders were dispatched across the Sahara to raid the enemy port fortress of Benghazi, in what they feared would be a ''suicide mission''. It very nearly turned out that way, and the survivors faced a 1000-mile journey back across the desert to safet
