On the eve of Remembrance Day the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author Damien Lewis takes us back to 1944 and to a series of audacious operations deep behind enemy lines in the aftermath of D-Day.

The characters and scenes that feature in this episode of Travels Through Time arise out of Damien Lewis's new book, SAS: Band of Brothers, which in newly published in hardback.

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Show notes

Scene One: June 1944, France, a drop-zone twenty miles to the south of Paris.

Scene Two: Paris, July 1944, France, La Ferte Alais drop zone, just east of Etampes Airbase, south of Paris.

Scene Three: August 1944: Noailles, a dark patch of remote woodland to the north of Paris.

Memento: Lt K. Weihe’s SAS beret

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Presenter: Peter Moore

Guest: Damien Lewis

Production: Maria Nolan

Podcast partner: Colorgraph

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