Rogue Heroes

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

This history traces the wartime creation and operations of Britain's Special Air Service, the elite unit formed to raid Axis airfields and supply lines behind enemy lines in North Africa. Ben Macintyre follows David Stirling, Jock Lewes, and the early SAS recruits as they develop unorthodox desert warfare tactics and carry out high-risk missions during the Second World War. Drawing on regimental records, memoirs, diaries, and veteran interviews, the book examines both the unit's audacious successes and its internal failures, indiscipline, and losses.

by Ben Macintyre

Crown · First published 2016 · 380 pages