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SAS: Rogue Heroes

by Ben Macintyre

First published 2016

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4.7(11,547)

David Stirling creates the Special Air Service in the North African desert as a small raiding force designed to attack enemy airfields and supply lines behind the front. Jock Lewes develops its training and equipment, while Paddy Mayne becomes one of its most effective and volatile commanders as improvised operations grow into an established military unit.

Using the regiment’s archive and testimony from participants, Macintyre follows the SAS from desert raids through campaigns in Italy, occupied France and Germany. The account balances operational success against internal conflict, casualties and the deliberate construction of the unit’s legend, showing how irregular warfare changed both the men involved and the British Army.

Historical Periods

North African Campaign1940–1943 CE French Resistance1940–1944 CE Italian Campaign of World War II1943–1945

Genres

Court & Political Fiction

Historical people

Adolf Hitler1889–1945 Winston Churchill1874–1965

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