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Damien Lewis

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Damien Lewis

@authordlewis

Author, war-reporter, film-maker.

Half way up Mont Blanc

damienlewis.com

Joined September 2012

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Damien Lewis
@authordlewis
May 28
Fabulous to see SAS The Great Train Raid steaming into the Sunday Times bestseller list - straight in at Number 2 this weekend. Would be amazing to see it in pole position! If you've read it let me know your thoughts. Thanks. geni.us/GreatTrainRaid
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Damien Lewis
@authordlewis
Jun 5, 2024
Sterling stuff. Immensely moving. We cherish the memories of the living, remember the fallen ... and the sacrifices made in freedom's cause.🙏🙏🙏
Jane
@JaneFranklin99
Jun 4, 2024
Fantastic atmosphere on board the ferry as the veterans leave for Normandy. ⁦@ForcesNews⁩ #Dday80
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Damien Lewis
@authordlewis
Jun 6, 2024
Gosh. What a moment. Utterly magnificent. The greatest generation in action ... still. 🙏🙏🙏
Pizza Pepe 🇺🇸
@PizzaPepe
Jun 6, 2024
Incredible! 97-year-old WW2 paratrooper vet returns to Normandy to recreate his D-Day jump. 🫡🫡
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Damien Lewis
@authordlewis
Jun 5, 2024
Wow. Incredibly moving scenes. So very, very special. 🙏🙏🙏
Emmanuel Macron
@EmmanuelMacron
Jun 4, 2024
Welcome to France, heroes.
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Damien Lewis
@authordlewis
May 2, 2023
And so it begins ... Based upon my book, Churchill's Secret Warriors/The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare ... amazon.co.uk/Churchills-Sec…
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Damien Lewis
@authordlewis
Jun 4, 2024
This is fabulous. Sterling stuff @usabmc We must cherish the last, for their numbers grow ever smaller ...🙏🙏🙏
ABMC
@usabmc
Jun 2, 2024
.@USArmy #WWII Veteran Dennis Boldt landed on #UtahBeach in 1944. Today he walked through the Normandy American Cemetery with cast members from Band of Brothers & paused to meet soldiers from the 207th Military Intelligence Brigade. #DDay80 @US_EUCOM @USArmyEURAF @walkamongheroes
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Damien Lewis
@authordlewis
Jan 4, 2024
Very sad news indeed. Another one gone. We remember them - bravest of the brave. 🙏🙏🙏 Major Mike Sadler, last of the wartime SAS ‘Originals’ – obituary
Mike Sadler, last of the wartime SAS ‘Originals’ and their principal navigator – obituary
From telegraph.co.uk
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Damien Lewis
@authordlewis
Oct 18, 2024
In February 2023 I interviewed Alec 'Boy' Borrie, one of the last surviving members of the wartime SAS, for my new book SAS Daggers Drawn. Alec's nickname came about due to lying about his agent to sign up - he was sixteen, not eighteen, and so still in his teens when he
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Damien Lewis
@authordlewis
Nov 12, 2023
We owe them so much @PoppyLegion Lest we forget. 🙏
Royal British Legion
@PoppyLegion
Nov 12, 2023
Replying to @PoppyLegion
Over 9,000 will take part, including veterans who served on D-Day
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Damien Lewis
@authordlewis
Apr 8, 2022
Today, we pause and remember @AuschwitzMuseum Freedom dies in darkness.
Auschwitz Memorial
@AuschwitzMuseum
Apr 8, 2022
8 April 1932 | A Polish Jewish girl, Debora Chaja Strassberg, was born in Narol. She emigrated to Belgium. In 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
Damien Lewis
@authordlewis
Jan 5, 2025
Very timely, in today's Mail on Sunday - "Ex-defence chiefs lead calls for SAS legend to get posthumous VC for wartime heroics." Please share to spread the word - let's get this over the line and a great wrong rightly corrected. Thanks.🙏
Ex-defence chiefs lead calls for SAS legend to get posthumous honour
From dailymail.com
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Damien Lewis
@authordlewis
Jun 5, 2024
Superb footage. Ready and primed for the green-for-go.🙏
rgpoulussen.bsky.social
@rgpoulussen
Jun 5, 2024
#OTD in 1944. Men from British 6 Airborne Division, trained and ready to storm Fortress Europe. #WW2 #HISTORY
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Damien Lewis
@authordlewis
Apr 22, 2025
Happy Birthday to John Morris, 103 today, the last surviving member of the Raiding Support Regiment of WWII. Huge thanks to Adam Coppin, Matt Hellyer and the Pilgrim Bandits Charity for the great work they do looking after him, and others like him. 🙏🙏🙏
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Damien Lewis
@authordlewis
Dec 2, 2022
Veterans' Foundation writes: "Join us in wishing Len Howes a very happy 100th birthday. At 17 Len was called up to the Army and went on raids across the channel in a naval liberty boat. He became a Royal Engineer, detonating explosives and sweeping mines." 🙏 Please share widely.