Damien Lewis

The more one studies Churchill in the early stages of the war, the more in awe one is.  I became interested in the subject when… About 25 years ago, I was on assignment in what is now South Sudan and my security guy happened to be former SAS. He told me the story of Operation Barras – the extraordinary hostage rescue mission by the SAS in Sierra Leone in 2000 – and I wrote Operation Certain Death about it. When you start writing about more contemporary special-forces operations, I think you then have to look at the beginnings, and that takes you back to World War II. So that’s really where it all began. Growing up I was fascinated by… Any kind of foreign c