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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.
"Britain's Special Air Service--or SAS--was the brainchild of David Stirling, a young gadabout aristocrat with a remarkable strategic mind. Where his colleagues looked at a 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 Nazi lines and sabotage their airplanes and supplies. 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. Bringing his keen eye for psychological 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--one whose hard methods would influence contemporary special forces around the world."--From front flap and publisher description.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781101904169 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 110190416X (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9781101904183 (paperback)
- Physical Description: xvi, 380 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Crown, [2016]
- Copyright: ?2016
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Simultaneously published in the UK by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK, and in Canada by Signal, an imprint of Random House Canada"--Title page verso. British edition titled: SAS : rogue heroes : the authorized wartime story. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-364) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | List of maps -- Foreword by Rt. Hon. Viscount Slim -- Author's note -- A note on sources -- Prologue: Into the dark -- WAR IN THE DESERT -- Cowboy soldier -- L Detachment -- Recruits -- Into the desert -- The Long Range Desert Group -- Devil country -- A party of ghosts -- Blitz buggy -- Benghazi bed-and-breakfast -- Seven airfields -- Mass sabotage at Sidi Haneish -- Desert doctors -- Quite, quite mad -- Alamein -- WAR IN EUROPE -- Italy -- Bulbasket -- Houndsworth -- An eye for an eye -- Paddy McGinty's goat -- A predilection for risk -- Battaglione Alleata -- Into the Reich -- Liberation -- Who dares survives -- Acknowledgments -- Afterlines -- Wartime SAS operations -- Regimental Roll of Honor -- Selected bibliography -- Photography credits -- Index. |
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