Damien Lewis (filmmaker)

Damien Lewis
Born	March 1966 (age 58) Weymouth, Dorset, England
Occupation(s)	Author, filmmaker
Spouse	Eva Maletnlema ​ (m. 2004)​ [1]
Children	3

Damien Gavin Lewis (born March 1966) is a British author and filmmaker who has spent over twenty years reporting from and writing about conflict zones in many countries.^[2] He has produced about twenty films.

He has written more than fifteen books, some of which have been published in over thirty languages. His books have appeared on bestseller lists in many countries. He is a Fellow of the

Lewis has written other fiction and nonfiction books. In 2006 he was chosen as one of the "Nation's Twenty Favourite Authors" by the UK Government's Quick Reads Initiative in association with World Book Day.^{[citation needed]}

In February 2018 Lewis became a patron for the Scottish charity Bravehound which provides assistance dogs for veterans.^[9][10]

Books

Military

• Operation Certain Death: The Inside Story of the SAS's Greatest Battle (Century, 2004) - The account of Operation Barras, the attempt by the SAS to rescue the British Forces captured by guerrilla militia group the West Side Boys in Sierra Leone.
• Bloody Heroes: Ultimate Betrayal – Ultimate Firepower - Ultimate Revenge: The True Story of Britain's Secret Warriors in Afghanistan (Century 2006) - The account of British and American special forces unit deployed against
  Al Qaeda
  in Afghanistan.
• Apache Dawn: Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned (Sphere, 2008) A chronicle of the Apache pilots deployed in the
  Afghanistan war
  .
• Fire strike 7/9 (Ebury, 2010) An account of an Apache helicopter Fire Support Team's tour of Afghanistan.
• It's all about Treo: Life and War with the World's Bravest Dog (
  Quercus Publishing, 2012) - The true story of Treo - the world's most highly decorated living dog – whose job it was to sniff out bombs in Afghanistan
  .
• Zero Six Bravo: 60 Special Forces, 100,000 Enemy, The Explosive True Story (Quercus, 2013) - Tells the story of a Special Boat Service unit caught in a ferocious enemy ambush in Iraq, who managed to inflict massive damage on their enemies despite being outnumbered and outgunned.
• War Dog: The No-man's Land Puppy Who Took to the Skies (Sphere, 2013,
  Robert Bozdech, and their lives together.^[11]
• Churchill's Secret Warriors: The Explosive True Story of the Special Forces Desperadoes of WWII (Quercus, 2014) - The story of Winston Churchill's first 'deniable' secret operative force to operate behind enemy lines in World War II. This book was adapted into the 2024 action-comedy film The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.
• Prisoner of War in Sumatra in World War Two.^[12]
• The Nazi Hunters (Quercus, 2015)
  ISBN 978-1-7842-9390-1 - About the SAS's secret mission after WWII to hunt the SS commanders responsible for the murder of their comrades.^[13]
• Hunting Hitler's Nukes: The Secret Race to Stop the Nazi Bomb (2016),
  ISBN 978-1-78648-208-2, details the Norwegian heavy water sabotage by Norwegian & British Commandos of the Vemork Hydroelectric Plant
  during WW2.
• SAS Ghost Patrol (Quercus, 2017)
  LRDG/SAS raids on Tobruk and Barce
  in 1942.