SAS Nazi Hunters
In late summer 1944 eighty SAS soldiers parachuted into the French mountains, targeting one of the last great defences of the Reich.

Dropped hundreds of kilometres behind enemy lines, they were tasked with wreaking havoc and bloody mayhem, ensuring that Hitler s do-or-die stand would fail.

Hunted by thousands of crack German troops, at mission s end thirty-one SAS were listed as missing – fate unknown . They faced a horrific fate at the hands of their Nazi captors. With Winston Churchill s backing, mission leader Colonel Brian Franks refused to let matters rest. Faced with the post-war disbandment of the SAS,
Franks formed a top-secret Man Hunting unit to track down the Nazi killers through 1948 and beyond.

Known as The Secret Hunters, this force was peopled by a cast more extraordinary than any fiction: Captain Henry Druce, who waged war from his jeep in a silk top hat and corduroys; Russian Prince Yurka Galitzine, the fabulously well-connected grandmaster of black operations.

Still studied by the SAS today, The Secret Hunters are a founding part of the Regiment s myth, constituting one of the great untold stories of the Second World War.
History tells us that the SAS regiment was disbanded in
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