Tales from Heroes - thrilling stories of adventure and bravery from our SAS, for the National Year of Reading
The SAS builds heroes. Outside of wartime exploits, its members have conquered high peaks, rowed oceans, crossed frozen deserts, launched charities, saved lives and, in some cases, earned global fame. From superstar survival expert Bear Grylls to warrior monk Krishna Thapa, and record-breaking polar explorer Louis Rudd, their thrilling stories are told alongside those of the men who first established the Regiment’s Who Dares Wins ethos. Based on new interviews and privileged access to the SAS Regimental Association archive, author and former SAS officer Tom Petch highlights the can-do mindset of former SAS heroes that has shaped the rest of their lives.
Tom Petch served for eight years in the British Army, as a tank commander, adjutant, aide de camp and a Troop Commander of 22 SAS. His military experience gives him a unique perspective on recently declassified archives, operation reports, accounts and interviews of the original SAS and their commanders. He is now an award-winning film director and producer whose debut film, The Patrol, won the Raindance Film Festival. He is also the great-great-great-grandson of Samuel Shepheard, who founded Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo where the SAS was born.