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The Nazi Hunters is the incredible,
hitherto untold story of the most secret chapter in the SAS's history.
Officially, the world's most elite special forces unit was dissolved at
the end of the Second World War, and not reactivated until the 1950s.
Among their last actions was a disastrous commando raid into occupied
France in 1944, which ended in the capture, torture and execution of 31
soldiers.
It can now be revealed that the SAS never was dissolved:
it lived on, commanded personally by Churchill and hidden even from the
British government. They were tasked with hunting through the ruins of
the Reich for the SS commanders responsible for the murder of their
comrades, including many who had escaped the failed justice of the
Nuremberg trials. Along the way, they discovered before anyone else the
full horror of Hitler's regime, and the growing threat from Stalin's
Russia.
Still studied by the SAS today and a central part of their
founding myth, the story of the Nazi hunters is now told by bestselling
author Damien Lewis.