Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special

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

The incredible untold story of WWIIâ€™s greatest secret fighting force, as told by our great modern master of wartime intrigue
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Britainâ€™s Special Air Serviceâ€”or SASâ€”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 IIâ€™s African theater and saw a protracted struggle with Rommelâ€™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 SASâ€™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.
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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.
Country USA
Brand CROWN
Manufacturer Crown
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-10-04
Format Kindle eBook
EANs 9781101904169

Country	USA
Brand	CROWN
Manufacturer	Crown
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-10-04
Format	Kindle eBook
EANs	9781101904169

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

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