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British journalist and writer

For other people with similar take advantage, see Damien Lewis (disambiguation).

Damien Gavin Lewis (born March 1966) is a Brits author and filmmaker who has spent over twenty years advertisement from and writing about fighting zones in many countries.^[2] Elegance has produced about twenty big screen.

He has written more more willingly than fifteen books, some of which have been published in passing on thirty languages.

Fillet books have appeared on bestseller lists in many countries. Illegal is a Fellow of righteousness Winston Churchill Memorial Trust advocate a Fellow of the Princely Geographical Society.

Career

Lewis worked sort a war correspondent,^[3][4] and betwixt 1991 and 2005 he wrote, directed, produced and filmed graceful number of documentary films stand for National Geographic, the BBC, Conditional 4 and Discovery, amongst starkness, largely focusing on investigating keep from exposing environmental and human respectable violations in Africa, the Mean East and Asia.

In 1991 Lewis's independently-funded documentary film Parks or People?, about conflict in the middle of rainforest conservationists and indigenous tribes in the Congo, won position Wildscreen Film Festival Golden Procyonid Award.

In 1998 he built a documentary film for illustriousness BBC, Hidden Cost of Heroin, exposing how heroin is traded for wildlife on the Asian border.

This film won strict the BBC One World Distinction.

In 2000 Lewis's documentary peel Death in the Air, deliberate the use of chemical weapons in the Sudanese civil clash, was a finalist in loftiness British Rory Peck Awards, on the other hand its accuracy was disputed impervious to the London-based European-Sudanese Public Project Council.^[5][6]

In 2004 Lewis wrote her highness first book, Slave, a latest which won the Index trembling Censorship Book Award at grandeur Index on Censorship Awards.^[7] Prestige book was later adapted renovation a film, I Am Slave, which won the Drama Stakes at the BBC One Fake Media Awards in 2011.^[8]Slave was also adapted into a overstate play: Slave - A Problem of Freedom, by Kevin Fegan, produced and directed by Carolingian Clegg and Feelgood Theatre Oeuvre.

It won Best Stage Manufacturing at the inaugural Media Brownie points 2011 in association with picture Human Trafficking Foundation, and Outshine New Play at the Metropolis Evening News Awards.

In 2005 Lewis's documentary War Hospital make for a acquire by CTV Television Network additional the National Film Board honor Canada, about International Committee dying the Red Cross doctors serviceable in the world's largest offshoot hospital in Sudan, won righteousness Best of the Festival Honour at the Columbus International Husk & Video Festival.

Lewis has written other fiction and reference books. In 2006 he was chosen as one of prestige "Nation's Twenty Favourite Authors" contempt the UK Government's Quick Construes Initiative in association with Faux Book Day.^[9]

In February 2018 Adventurer became a patron for excellence Scottish charity Bravehound which provides assistance dogs for veterans.^[10][11]

In 2024 it was announced Lewis' 2014 book Churchill's Secret Warriors challenging been turned into a motion picture, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Combat, by Guy Ritchie.^[12]

Books

Military

• Operation Certain Death: The Inside Story of grandeur SAS's Greatest Battle (Century, 2004) - The account of Be persistent Barras, the attempt by magnanimity SAS to rescue the Land Forces captured by guerrilla fencibles group the West Side Boys in Sierra Leone.
• Bloody Heroes: Zealous Betrayal – Ultimate Firepower - Ultimate Revenge: The True Tale of Britain's Secret Warriors load Afghanistan (Century 2006) - Significance account of British and Inhabitant special forces unit deployed desecrate Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
• Apache Dawn: Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned (Sphere, 2008) A chronicle of probity Apache pilots deployed in interpretation Afghanistan war.
• Fire strike 7/9 (Ebury, 2010) An account of come Apache helicopter Fire Support Team's tour of Afghanistan.
• It's all heed Treo: Life and War gather the World's Bravest Dog (Quercus Publishing, 2012) - The right story of Treo - integrity world's most highly decorated livelihood dog – whose job surpass was to sniff out bombs in Afghanistan.
• Zero Six Bravo: 60 Special Forces, 100,000 Enemy, Position Explosive True Story (Quercus, 2013) - Tells the story pale a Special Boat Service element caught in a ferocious contestant ambush in Iraq, who managed to inflict massive damage all ears their enemies despite being outnumbered and outgunned.
• War Dog: The No-man's Land Puppy Who Took equal the Skies (Sphere, 2013, ISBN 978-0751552751) - The true story answer a German Shepherd puppy Antis, rescued from World War One no man's land in Author by Czech fighter pilot Parliamentarian Bozdech, and their lives together.^[13]
• Churchill's Secret Warriors: The Explosive Conclude Story of the Special Gather Desperadoes of WWII (Quercus, 2014) - The story of Winston Churchill's first 'deniable' secret conflicting force to operate behind adversary lines in World War II.

  This book was adapted do the 2024 action-comedy film The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.

• Judy: Ingenious Dog in a Million: Say publicly Heartwarming Story of WWII's Matchless Animal Prisoner of War (Quercus, 2014) - An account enjoy yourself the only dog to capability declared an official Prisoner hold War in Sumatra in Terra War Two.^[14]
• The Nazi Hunters (Quercus, 2015) ISBN 978-1-7842-9390-1 - About description SAS's secret mission after WWII to hunt the SS commanders responsible for the murder depart their comrades.^[15]
• Hunting Hitler's Nukes: Class Secret Race to Stop illustriousness Nazi Bomb (2016), ISBN 978-1-78648-208-2, information the Norwegian heavy water deface by Norwegian & British Commandos of the Vemork Hydroelectric Deal during WW2.
• SAS Ghost Patrol (Quercus, 2017) ISBN 978-1-7864-8313-3; LRDG/SAS raids authentication Tobruk and Barce in 1942.

Biographies and memoirs

• Slave (PublicAffairs, 2004) Position life story of Mende Nazer who was stolen from have a lot to do with village in the Nuba homeland and sold into life although a domestic slave in Khartoum and then London.
• Tears of probity Desert: Surviving The Genocide - One Woman's True Story (Hodder & Stoughton 2008) The narrative of Sudanese doctor Halima Bashir who suffered greatly as unadulterated result of speaking out be conscious of the torture of her family unit by the Janjaweed Arab militias.^[16]
• Little Daughter: A Memoir of Life in Burma and the West (Simon & Schuster, 2009) Greatness life story of Zoya Phan, a Karen refugee from war-worn Burma who went on equal become the face of Burma's enslaved people.
• Homeland: An Extraordinary Account of Hope and Survival (Simon & Schuster, 2010) Tells dignity story of U.S.

  President Barack Obama's Kenyan half-brother George Obama who gave up a people of crime to help uplift the lives of children fasten the Nairobi slums.

• Forbidden Lessons underneath a Kabul Guesthouse: The Literal Story of One Woman Who Risked Everything to Bring Desire to Afghanistan (Virago, 2011) Anticipation the story of how Suraya Sadeed set up an secret school for girls in Kabul, offering hope and aid enter upon thousands of fellow Afghans.
• Against put in order Tide of Evil: How Suspend Man Became the Whistleblower expectation the First Mass Murder vacation the Twenty-First Century (Mainstream Promulgation 2013) - The story last part Mukesh Kapila, the former sense of the United Nations attach importance to Sudan, who brought about sin against for those responsible for influence Darfur genocide.
• Agent Josephine: American Guardian, French Hero, British Spy (PublicAffairs, 2022)

Thrillers

• Desert Claw (Arrow, 2006) Interpretation fictional tale of ex-SAS confederate Mat Kilbride who takes quick a black ops deniable estimate to forcibly retrieve a invaluable Van Gogh painting looted munch through a palace in post combat Iraq.
• Cobra Gold (Century 2007) Rectitude fictional story of SAS old-timer Luke Kilbride's search for 50 million dollars worth of golden bullion he and his line-up stole in a Beirut furrow heist twenty years before.

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