I do wonder if David Stirling's capture in early 1943 was a body blow to the SAS or the kind of release to a commanding officer in Mayne who had the foresight, the ability and the unremitting loyalty of his troops to see through the SAS's role after D Day with the same dedicated ferocity to the enemy Mayne showed in the Desert. This is especially true for Blair “Paddy” Mayne - a complex and multi-layered individual who is usually misrepresented in books and especially so in the current BBC drama - if only they had made this book into a TV series! Well, few know more about the heroics, history and histrionics surrounding Robert Blair Mayne, someone whom fellow soldier Joe Welch described as ".

His widely-acclaimed WWII elite forces series includes The Nazi Hunters, SAS Ghost Patrol, SAS Italian Job/Churchill's Hellraisers and Churchill’s Secret Warriors, which is being developed as a movie series by Paramount Pictures.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. It is a breathtaking narrative of do-or-die action and unbelievable daring chronicling the exploits of some of the most fearless, revered, and under-the-radar soldiers of the 20th century. Written with Lewis’s signature authenticity and dramatic verve, SAS Ghost Patrol is peopled by a cast of the utterly maverick and the extraordinary.

Hunted by thousands of crack German troops, at mission's end thirty-one SAS were listed as "missing - fate unknown". However, the author destroys this argument showing Mayne to be an erudite, self-effacing officer, who cared passionately about his men. Churchill was a great supporter of the SAS and their saviour, He understood that the stodgy and moribund ways of waging war was not going to bring victory.With nonfiction as a reader, you have to like the subject you're reading, but it's even better when you're reading actual history about the SAS, then find the main characters that the author picks out to focus on and you like them. The book ends with the SAS entering a new chapter in its history and I look forward to the next book, as Mayne takes the SAS to a new field of action after finishing its work in North Africa. SAS Ghost Patrol is the explosive true story of the day in 1942 when the SAS donned Nazi uniforms to perpetrate the most audacious and daring mission of the war.