Damien Lewis

So they have to leave him behind and they split into two groups and they set up on their operation.

Stokes and his two fellows carry out this operation.

amazing sabotage operation deep in a train tunnel and blow up what is a German armoured train.

And having blown it up, the Germans, obviously, confounded by what's happened and in the chaos and confusion, open fire on themselves.

And then Stokes and his two fellows start their epic escape and evasion.

It's a thousand, it's more than a thousand miles to try to get back to Allied lines.

That is their mission.

Really extraordinary.

Two of them managed to make it back to Allied lines overland somehow incredibly.

Horace Stokes.

As he parachutes down, it's very windy.

It's borderline operational conditions.

They probably shouldn't have parachuted at all.

But typical of the SS, they went anyway.

Anyway, a gust of wind blows Stokes onto the roof of a farmstead and he lands on the roof.

His parachute gets caught up in the chimney.

He's left hanging.

um dangling into space and he cuts his parachute lines and drops and injures his groin in the process and by the time he's approaching rome stokes realizes that he's so ill from his injury that he can't go on

Well, certainly he can't expect his two fellows to continue travelling with him because he's holding back too much.

So he says to them, you go on without me and leave me.