Rogue HeroesThe History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Specia...

The History of the Sas, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War

Cover Art for 9781101904169, Rogue HeroesThe History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Specia... by Ben Macintyre
ISBN: 9781101904169
Publisher: Crown
Published: 4 October, 2016
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The incredible untold story of WWII s greatest secret fighting force, as told by our great modern master of wartime intrigue Britain s Special Air Service or SAS was the brainchild of David Stirling, a young, gadabout aristocrat whose aimlessness in early life belied a remarkable strategic mind. Where most of his colleagues looked at a battlefield map of World War II s African theater and saw a protracted struggle with Rommel s desert forces, Stirling saw an opportunity: given a small number of elite, well-trained men, he could parachute behind enemy lines and sabotage their airplanes and war material. Paired with his constitutional opposite, the disciplined martinet Jock Lewes, Stirling assembled a revolutionary fighting force that would upend not just the balance of the war, but the nature of combat itself. He faced no little resistance from those who found his tactics ungentlemanly or beyond the pale, but in the SAS s remarkable exploits facing the Nazis in the Africa and then on the Continent can be found the seeds of nearly all special forces units that would follow. Bringing his keen eye for psychological detail to a riveting wartime narrative, Ben Macintyre uses his unprecedented access to SAS archives to shine a light inside a legendary unit long shrouded in secrecy. The result is not just a tremendous war story, but a fascinating group portrait of men of whom history and country asked the most. Washington Post , Top 10 Title for 2016 NPR "Best Books of 2016" - Staff

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