In the fourth instalment of his SAS Great Escapes series, Damien Lewis recounts, among others, an overlooked LRDG operation in occupied Yugoslavia

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HOW THE LUFTWAFFE PREPARED FOR THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN

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On a muggy night in late August 1940, Hinnerk Waller’s fraying tether had finally snapped. Relentlessly deployed in the Battle of Britain as part of the Luftwaffe fighter wing JG 52, Waller was paying