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Speed, Aggression, Surprise - The Untold Secret Origins of the SAS (Paperback)
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Speed, Aggression, Surprise - The Untold Secret Origins of the SAS (Paperback)
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List price R350
Loot Price R280
Discovery Miles 2 800
You Save R70 (20%)
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The official origin story of the SAS is a myth. This is the real
story of how the world's preeminent Special Forces came into
existence. 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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