Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War

Ben Macintyre

Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Country
Published
29 August 2017
Pages
400
ISBN
9781101904183

Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain’s Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War

Ben Macintyre

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The incredible untold story of World War II’s greatest secret fighting force, as told by the modern master of wartime intrigue-coming soon as a limited series on Epix!

Reads like a mashup of The Dirty Dozen and The Great Escape, with a sprinkling of Ocean’s 11 thrown in for good measure. -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR * Rogue Heroes is a ripping good read. -Washington Post (10 Best Books of the Year)

Britain’s Special Air Service-or SAS-was the brainchild of David Stirling, a young aristocrat whose aimlessness belied a remarkable strategic mind. Where most of his colleagues looked at a World War II battlefield map and saw a protracted struggle, Stirling saw an opportunity: given a small number of elite men, he could parachute behind Nazi lines and sabotage their airplanes and supplies. Defying his superiors’ conventional wisdom, Stirling assembled a revolutionary fighting force that would upend not just the balance of the war, but the nature of combat itself.

Bringing his keen eye for detail to a riveting wartime narrative, Ben Macintyre uses his unprecedented access to the SAS archives to shine a light on a legendary unit long shrouded in secrecy.

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