SAS: Rogue Heroes - Now a major TV drama

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Paperback | 384 pages129 x 197 x 27 | 318g

'Impeccably researched, superbly told - by far the best book on the SAS in World War II' Antony Beevor' Dashing and louche, courageous and unpredictable, the traitor was a patriot inside, and the villain a hero. 'A master at setting the pulse racing' Daily Mail ________________ In the summer of 1941, at the height of the war in the Western Desert, a bored and eccentric young officer, David Stirling, has a vision for a new kind of war: attacking the enemy where they least expect it - from behind their own lines. On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag. Told with deceptive brilliance . From the secret SAS archives and bestselling author Ben Macintyre: The first ever authorized history of the SAS. 'Impeccably researched, superbly told - by far the best book on the SAS in World War II' Antony Beevor One April morning in 1943, a sardine fisherman spotted the corpse of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast of Spain and set in train a course of events that would change the course of the Second World War. One December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field.

c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2)