This is a book review of ‘The Nazi Hunters’ by Damien Lewis.
What a great find at a charity shop! One morning I was browsing the bookshelves at a few local charity shops and stumbled across this book. The book is mainly about SAS soldiers during WW2 being parachuted behind enemy lines in France with the objective of disrupting the German army, but the book also covers other aspects of the war, which I will cover later in this review.
The risks that the Allied troops and French locals took were incredible and the author describes the missions and interactions with locals in great detail. It was tough to read at times, as sadly many brave people were tortured and murdered by the Nazis. This book doesn’t hold back and I feel it tells a story that needs to be told.
If you’ve got an interest in covert army operations during the second world war, you should find this book of interest. The book goes much further and you also learn about the French region and locals and the risks they also took. After the war, it was important that war criminals were tracked down, and this book covers the hard work and hurdles, that went into finding people responsible for committing the atrocities mentioned in the book.
I thought the paperback edition I read was a good size, easy to carry about and the writing style excellent. The author shows his skill in how he writes about what occurred, and it left me continuously thinking how brave the Allied people were, especially under such dreadful circumstances.
I read a lot of fiction, but I’m glad I took time to read this factual book.
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