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Speed, Aggression, Surprise - The Untold Secret Origins of the SAS (Hardcover)
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Speed, Aggression, Surprise - The Untold Secret Origins of the SAS (Hardcover)
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'More compelling and more inspiring than the versions we've
previously heard' - JOHN NICHOL 'Gripping and fascinating...
unforgettable characters and thrilling adventures' - WILL IREDALE
The official origin story of the SAS is a myth. This is the real
story of how the world's preeminent Special Forces was born. It's a
fly-on-the-wall, character-driven story of the origins of a new
means of warfare, forged from the wreckage of Dunkirk. It's the
birth of subliminal methods - guerrilla Commando units that could
inflict devastating 'mosquito stings' on larger, and better-armed
opponents. It's a never-before-told account of how the shock of
defeat propelled an unlikely group of renegades into the frontline
of the war. An adventure that reaches back from the trenches of the
Western Front, to high piracy in the deserts of North Africa, to
the final assault on Germany. It's a concept that takes shape in
the corridors of headquarters, on long nights at the long bar in
Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo, and on the deadliest battlefields in
history, around a cast of insubordinate mavericks who didn't fit
into the tight hierarchy of the armed forces. Flashing between
dramatic accounts from the field and back-channel power
negotiations in Westminster, reeling in a cast of characters that
includes Evelyn Waugh, Ernest Hemingway and Randolph Churchill, as
well as a lot of alcohol, amphetamines and grenades, this is the
real story of the SAS as you have never seen it before.
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