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SAS Great Escapes Five

by Damien Lewis Book 5 in the SAS Great Escapes series.

First published 2026

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The fifth collection begins with early airborne and commando operations, including Operation Colossus, and follows soldiers who survive failed raids, desert pursuit and imprisonment. Later stories move into Italy, where special-forces missions, prisoner rescues and the collapse of enemy control create opportunities that remain extremely dangerous.

Several escapees depend on clandestine routes associated with the Vatican and Italian resistance networks to reach Allied territory. Lewis links each escape to the operation that preceded it, showing how wounds, betrayal and broken communications transformed trained raiders into fugitives whose survival depended on strangers.

Historical Periods

North African Campaign1940–1943 CE Italian Campaign of World War II1943–1945

Genres

Court & Political Fiction Espionage

Historical people

Adolf Hitler1889–1945 Winston Churchill1874–1965

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