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  • Published: 19 June 2017
  • ISBN: 9780241186862
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $26.99
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SAS

Rogue Heroes

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15 Nov 2022
Paperback
19 June 2017
EBook
22 Sept 2016
Audiobook
22 Sept 2016
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'Impeccably researched, superbly told - by far the best book on the SAS in World War II' - Antony Beevor

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.

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. And so begins the most celebrated and mysterious military organisation in the world: the SAS.

With unprecedented access to the SAS secret files, unseen footage and exclusive interviews with its founder members, SAS: Rogue Heroes tells the remarkable story behind an extraordinary fighting force, and the immense cost of making it a reality.
  • Published: 19 June 2017
  • ISBN: 9780241186862
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $26.99
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About the author

Ben Macintyre

Ben Macintyre is the multimillion-copy bestselling author of books including Colditz, Agent Sonya, SAS: Rogue Heroes, The Spy and the Traitor, Agent Zigzag, Operation Mincemeat and A Spy Among Friends. He is a columnist and Associate Editor at The Times, and has worked as the newspaper's correspondent in New York, Paris and Washington. Several of his books have been made into films and television series, including Operation Mincemeat, A Spy Among Friends and SAS: Rogue Heroes.
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Praise for SAS

Such a well-written, but also just informative, deeply detailed account of all of these guys’ lives within the SAS during that time.

Jack Barton, star of the BBC series SAS Rogue Heroes

A master at setting the pulse racing, Macintyre relates stories of raw courage and daring by extraordinary men

Tony Rennell, Daily Mail

Impeccably researched, superbly told - by far the best book on the SAS in World War II

Antony Beevor

Meticulously researched, splendidly told, immensely entertaining and often very moving

John le Carré on 'Agent Zigzag'

Thrilling ... An extraordinary book

The Times Book of the Week on 'A Spy Among Friends'

Told with deceptive brilliance... one the finest books of its kind

Evening Standard

The sharp style and sly wit reveal some pretty acute insights into the politics of the nation's favourite undercover boys

Evening Standard Books of the Year

Ben Macintyre's coverage of the SAS in north Africa and, later, Italy, France and Germany, is brilliant, blending gripping narratives of fighting with descriptions of the fears of individual soldiers before battle and their reactions to its horror... Britain's martial pantheon is full of outnumbered heroes who wouldn't throw in the sponge. Henry V's band of brothers at Agincourt, the redcoats at Waterloo, the defenders of Rorke's drift, and the paras who charged at Goose Green are part of the tradition that embraces the SAS. This book explains why

Times

This book has many strengths but perhaps its greatest is how thought-provoking it is

Laurence Rees, Sunday Times

Macintyre provides a riveting history of a revolutionary fighting force . . . A ripping good read

Washington Post 10 Best Books of 2016

So good and so much more than the boys own adventure you might think it will read like. Ben is a brilliant writer

Dermot O'Leary

Thorough and highly entertaining. It would be nigh on impossible to praise it too highly

Daily Express

He brings his familiar mix of thrilling anecdotes, meticulous accuracy and bizarre humour to a book that should appeal to many readers beyond military history buffs. An instructive, as well as an engrossing, read

Observer Book of the Week

An astonishing book

Simon Mayo