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Name: Rogue heroes
Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Author: Ben Macintyre

Focusing on the birth of the SAS during World War II, Benjamin Macintyre chronicles how the visionary aristocrat David Stirling, together with disciplined commander Jock Lewes, assembled a small cadre of elite soldiers to operate behind Nazi lines. Using unprecedented access to SAS archives, the book details their daring missions across the African desert and the European continent, illustrating how this new form of warfare reshaped combat and laid the foundation for all future special‑forces units. Through vivid psychological insight and a gripping wartime narrative, it presents a portrait of the men who were both heroes and pioneers in Britain’s military history.

First publish date: 2016

Genre: History/Military History

Authors: Ben Macintyre

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