SAS Operation Galia: Bravery Behind Enemy Lines in the Second World War

by Robert Hann

Two Days after Christmas 1944, during the harshest winter in living memory, 33 SAS troops parachuted into the valley of Rossano, Northern Italy. Carried out in broad daylight, the parachute drop was intended to deceive enemy forces into believing that a full parachute brigade had landed behind them. Drawing on post-op reports and memoirs, this book is a fictionalised account written from the perspective of one of the rank and file parachutists who took part in the operation, the author's father. Scrupulously researched and richly illustrated, Hann's personal narrative brings to life the co-ordinated attempts of the SAS and local partisans to engage and evade the enemy. For the first time, Hann provides a detailed account of some of the devastating setbacks and triumphs of SAS Operation Galia. One of the hardest fought and most successful operations of World War Two.

235 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2009

About the author

I am an author of several published works covering different genres. My novel 'SAS Operation Galia' won the Impress Prize on first publication in 2009 and tells the true story of my Father's second World wartime experiences behind enemy lines in occupied Italy in 1944/45;

I love writing children's verse, Rhymes and stories and The GrumbleGroar is about a mythical creature that lives near the Centre of the Earth and creates the forces that make volcanos and earthquakes; The book is a fabulously illustrated rhyming picture book aimed at helping children to understand what goes on beneath their feet and well as improving literacy. It won the new writers UK children's book of the year 2012;
The Legend of Sidney Sneed tells the story of a soccer playing superstar centipede who comprises a whole team on his own. again a rhyming picture book