Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War

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Published on 27 October 2022 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom.

Written and researched by renowned special forces expert, Gavin Mortimer. Where most of his colleagues looked at a World War II battlefield map and saw a protracted struggle, Stirling saw an opportunity: given a small number of elite men, he could parachute behind Nazi lines and sabotage their airplanes and supplies. Formed at the height of World War Two, the Special Air Service has come to define the idea of the super soldier. Despite the intense opposition of many in British High Command, Winston Churchill personally gives Stirling permission to recruit the toughest, brightest and most ruthless soldiers he can find. by MacIntyre, Ben | United Kingdom, Great Britain Published 01/06/2017 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom Paperback | 384 pages130 x 197 x 34mm | 314g 'A master at setting the pulse racing' Daily MailIn 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. A senior KGB officer, for more than a decade he had supplied his British spymasters with a stream of priceless secrets from deep within the Soviet intelligence machine. It looks back to World War Two and its immediate aftermath to recall the men, the missions and the legends of the force that helped turn the tide against the Axis.

Paperback | 384 pages129 x 197 x 27 | 318g