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The amazing untold report of WWII's best secret fighting force, as informed by our great modern get better at of wartime intrigue. Britain's Special Air Service - or SAS - was the brainchild of David Stirling, a, gadabout aristocrat whose aimlessness in early life belied a remarkable strategic mind. Where most of his colleagues viewed a battlefield map of World War II's African theater and noticed a protracted struggle with Rommel's desert causes, Stirling saw an opportunity: Given a tiny number of top notch, well-trained men, he could parachute behind opponent lines and sabotage their airplanes and warfare matériel. Paired with his constitutional reverse, the disciplined martinet Jock Lewes, Stirling set up a revolutionary fighting with each other force that could upend not simply the balance of the warfare but the dynamics of battle itself. He faced no little resistance from those who found his strategies ungentlemanly or beyond the pale, however in the SAS' remarkable exploits facing the Nazis in Africa and then on the continent are available the seeds of practically all special causes units that could follow. Bringing his keen eye for emotional depth to a riveting wartime narrative, Ben Macintyre uses his unprecedented usage of SAS archives to stand out a light inside a legendary product long shrouded in secrecy. The result is not just a tremendous war report but a remarkable group family portrait of men of whom record and country asked the most.
