Pirate Train

ITALY, 1943. THIRTEEN SAS SOLDIERS. SEVEN HUNDRED PRISONERS. ONE STOLEN TRAIN.Italy has surrendered-but the war is far from over.German forces are seizing control of the country, Allied armies are fighting their way north, and hundreds of prisoners held at an Italian internment camp face being transported into German captivity.When Sergeant Thomas Haldane and a small SAS detachment learn what is about to happen, they are faced with an impossible problem.They have the men to attack the camp.They don't have the transport to evacuate the prisoners.Then Captain Edward Mallory sees a railway line.What follows is an audacious journey through enemy-held Italy aboard a commandeered steam locomotive-a train soon given a name of its own:The Pirate Train.With German patrols closing in, aircraft hunting from above, bridges threatened with demolition and hundreds of civilians and Allied prisoners crammed aboard, Haldane and his men must fight their way south through a country where the front lines are changing by the hour.Every mile brings another obstacle.Every stop risks discovery.And somewhere ahead lies the German army.Inspired by the extraordinary exploits of the SAS in wartime Italy, The Pirate Train is a fast-moving historical military adventure about courage, improvisation, sacrifice and the extraordinary lengths a handful of soldiers will go to when leaving people behind is not an option.For readers who enjoy action-packed Second World War fiction, SAS stories, behind-enemy-lines adventures and military thrillers based on remarkable episodes of history.