TY  - BOOK
AU  - Macintyre,Ben
AU  - Macintyre,Ben
TI  - Rogue heroes: the history of the SAS, Britain's secret special forces unit that sabotaged the Nazis and changed the nature of war 
SN  - 9781101904169 (hardcover)
AV  - D760.S59 M33 2016
U1  - 940.54/1241 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Crown
KW  - Stirling, David,
KW  - Lewes, Jock,
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Army
KW  - Special Air Service
KW  - History
KW  - Biography
KW  - fast
KW  - World War (1939-1945)
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Commando operations
KW  - Special forces (Military science)
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Regimental histories
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Africa, North
KW  - HISTORY / Military / World War II
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - TRUE CRIME / Espionage
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Great B
KW  - Commando troops
KW  - tlcgt
N1  - "Simultaneously published in the UK by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK, and in Canada by Signal, an imprint of Random House Canada"--Title page verso; British edition titled: SAS : rogue heroes : the authorized wartime story; Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-364) and index; Prologue: Into the dark -- WAR IN THE DESERT -- Cowboy soldier -- L Detachment -- Recruits -- Into the desert -- The Long Range Desert Group -- Devil country -- A party of ghosts -- Blitz buggy -- Benghazi bed-and-breakfast -- Seven airfields -- Mass sabotage at Sidi Haneish -- Desert doctors -- Quite, quite mad -- Alamein -- WAR IN EUROPE -- Italy -- Bulbasket -- Houndsworth -- An eye for an eye -- Paddy McGinty's goat -- A predilection for risk -- Battaglione Alleata -- Into the Reich -- Liberation -- Who dares survives
N2  - "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. Bringing his keen eye for psychological 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--one whose hard methods would influence contemporary special forces around the world. The result is not only a tremendous war story, but also a fascinating group portrait of men of whom history and country asked the most"--From front flap and publisher description
ER  -