Rogue Heroes -The History Of The SAS audio Book unabridged by Ben Macintyre
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Rogue Heroes -The History Of The SAS audio Book unabridged by Ben Macintyre
ROGUE HEROES by BEN MACINTYRE
THE HISTORY OF THE SAS
Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged The Nazis and Changed The Nature of War
AUDIO BOOK, 11 CDs UNABRIDGED
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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.
The incredible untold story of WWII's greatest secret fighting force, as told by our great modern master of wartime intrigue Britain's Special Air Service--or SAS--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 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 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 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.
REVIEWS:
"Macintyre writes with the diligence and insight of a journalist, and the panache of a born storyteller" --John Banville
"By far the best book on the SAS in World War II--impeccably researched and superbly told." --Antony Beevor, author of D-Day and Stalingrad
"We all have to come from somewhere. Rogue Heroes gives a glimpse deep down the rabbit hole into how the special forces world started. This is a great look into how a motivated bunch of bad asses changed the tide of war and carved the path for the rest of us to follow." --Marcus Luttrell, U.S. Navy Seal, author of Lone Survivor,
"Ben Macintyre's suspenseful new book, Rogue Heroes , about the founding of Britain's S.A.S. during World War II, reads like a mashup of 'The Dirty Dozen' and 'The Great Escape', with a sprinkling of 'Ocean's 11' thrown in for good measure... Mr. Macintyre draws sharp, Dickensian portraits of these men, and he displays his usual gifts here for creating a cinematic narrative that races along... Mr. Macintyre is masterly in using details to illustrate his heroes' bravery, lan and dogged perseverance...a gripping account of the early days of S.A.S." --Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
"Macintyre writes with the diligence and insight of a journalist, and the panache of a born storyteller" --John Banville
"By far the best book on the SAS in World War II--impeccably researched and superbly told." --Antony Beevor, author of D-Day and Stalingrad
"We all have to come from somewhere. Rogue Heroes gives a glimpse deep down the rabbit hole into how the special forces world started. This is a great look into how a motivated bunch of bad asses changed the tide of war and carved the path for the rest of us to follow." --Marcus Luttrell, U.S. Navy Seal, author of Lone Survivor From the Hardcover edition.
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Data sheet
- Author
- Ben Macintyre
- Topic
- Espionage
Europe / Great Britain / General
Military / World War II
WORLD - Format
- Compact Disc
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Language
- English
- Genre
- History
True Crime - Publisher
- Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Book Title
- Rogue Heroes : The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War
- Run Time
- 13 Hours
- Narrator
- Ben Macintyre
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