Rogue heroes : the history of the SAS, Britain's secret special forces unit that sabotaged the Nazis and changed the nature of the war

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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 the war

Title remainder

the history of the SAS, Britain's secret special forces unit that sabotaged the Nazis and changed the nature of the war

Statement of responsibility

Ben MacIntyre

Creator

• Macintyre, Ben, 1963-

Author

• Macintyre, Ben, 1963-

Subject

• World War, 1939-1945 -- Commando operations -- Great Britain
• Great Britain, Army | Special Air Service -- History
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- Great Britain
• Special forces (Military science) -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century

Language

eng

Summary

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. He faced 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, 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.--Adapted from dust jacket and publisher description

Cataloging source

YDXCP

Dewey number

940.54/1241

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

D760.S59

LC item number

M33 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography