NEW YORK TIMES
BESTSELLER • The incredible untold story of World War II’s greatest secret fighting force, as told by the modern master of wartime intrigue—now a limited series on MGM+!
“Reads like a mashup of
The Dirty Dozen
and
The Great Escape,
with a sprinkling of
Ocean’s 11
thrown in for good measure.”—Michiko Kakutani,
The New York Times
ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • “
Rogue Heroes
is a ripping good read.”—
Washington Post
(10 Best Books of the Year)
Britain’s Special Air Service—or SAS—was the brainchild of David Stirling, a young aristocrat whose aimlessness belied a remarkable strategic mind. 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. Defying his superiors’ conventional wisdom, Stirling assembled a revolutionary fighting force that would upend not just the balance of the war, but the nature of combat itself.
Bringing his keen eye for detail to a riveting wartime narrative, Ben Macintyre uses his unprecedented access to the SAS archives to shine a light on a legendary unit long shrouded in secrecy.