Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain’s Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War
Product Details
- Hardcover: 400 pages
- Publisher: Crown (October 4, 2016)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 110190416X
- ISBN-13: 978-1101904169
- Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.3 x 9.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
Review Ben Macintyre™s suspenseful new book, Rogue Heroes, about the foundingof Britain™s S.A.S. during World War II, reads like a mashup of The DirtyDozen, and The Great Escape,, with a sprinkling of Ocean™s 11, thrown in forgood measure¦ Mr. Macintyre draws sharp, Dickensian portraits of these men,and he displays his usual gifts here for creating a cinematic narrative thatraces along¦ Mr. Macintyre is masterly in using details to illustrate hisheroes™ bravery, ©lan and dogged perseverance¦a gripping account of the earlydays of S.A.S.,??Michiko Kakutani, New York TimesMacintyre writes with thediligence and insight of a journalist, and the panache of a bornstoryteller,??John BanvilleBy far the best book on the SAS in World WarII”impeccably researched and superbly told., ”Antony Beevor, author of D-Dayand Stalingrad “We all have to come from somewhere. Rogue Heroes gives aglimpse deep down the rabbit hole into how the special forces world started.This is a great look into how a motivated bunch of bad asses changed the tideof war and carved the path for the rest of us to follow.””Marcus Luttrell,U.S. Navy Seal, author of Lone Survivor Read more About the Author BENMACINTYRE is a writer-at-large for The Times of London and the bestsellingauthor of A Spy Among Friends, Double Cross, Operation Mincemeat, and AgentZigzag, among other books. Macintyre has also written and presented BBCdocumentaries of his work. Read more See all Editorial Reviews