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—now an original series on MGM+! “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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The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781101904176
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
Random House Digital Inc.
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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