Rogue heroes the history of the SAS, Britain's secret special forces unit that sabotaged the Nazis and changed the nature of the war
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New York, New York : Random House Audio, [2016].
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Unabridged.
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11 audio discs (13 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Moab Library - Adult Audio-Visual
CD 940.541 MACINTYR
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Published
New York, New York : Random House Audio, [2016].
Format
Audiobook
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
UPC
9780735288096
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Unabridged.
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Compact discs.
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Read by the author.
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Britain’s Special Air Service — or SAS — was the brainchild of David Stirling, a young, gadabout aristocrat whose aimlessness in early life belied a remarkable strategic mind. Where most of his colleagues looked at a battlefield map of World War II’s African theater and saw a protracted struggle with Rommel’s desert forces, Stirling saw an opportunity: given a small number of elite, well-trained men, he could parachute behind enemy lines and sabotage their airplanes and war material. Paired with his constitutional opposite, the disciplined martinet Jock Lewes, Stirling assembled a revolutionary fighting force that would upend not just the balance of the war, but the nature of combat itself. He faced no little resistance from those who found his tactics ungentlemanly or beyond the pale, but in the SAS’s remarkable exploits facing the Nazis in the Africa and then on the Continent can be found the seeds of nearly all special forces units that would follow. Bringing his keen eye for psychological detail to a riveting wartime narrative, Ben Macintyre uses his unprecedented access to SAS archives to shine a light inside a legendary unit long shrouded in secrecy. The result is not just a tremendous war story, but a fascinating group portrait of men of whom history and country asked the most.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Macintyre, B. (2016). Rogue heroes: the history of the SAS, Britain's secret special forces unit that sabotaged the Nazis and changed the nature of the war (Unabridged.). Random House Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Macintyre, Ben, 1963-. 2016. Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of the War. Random House Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Macintyre, Ben, 1963-. Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of the War Random House Audio, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Macintyre, Ben. Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of the War Unabridged., Random House Audio, 2016.
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