This is one of those books that you simply don’t want to stop listening to. I learned a tremendous amount about the history of this elite unit and the writing is so good that I focused on nearly every word finishing it two days after adding it to my library. This is essentially a collection of stories or actions, but they are put together seamlessly and told so well that the book reads like a good suspense novel. Content - You will not be disappointed by this book if you want to learn a lot about the SAS or even if you already know a lot about the SAS. That should be enough said, but there remain no other reviews on Audible so I'm the first and I’ll touch on the high points to assist in your decision just in case you’re not hooked by the sample. I was hooked on this title halfway through the audio sample, but the rest of the book blew me away. General – I loved this book! So much so that I started writing this review with just over one hour left to go. The result is not just a tremendous war story but a fascinating group portrait of men of whom history and country asked the most. He faced no little resistance from those who found his tactics ungentlemanly or beyond the pale, but in the SAS' remarkable exploits facing the Nazis in Africa and then on the continent can be found the seeds of nearly all special forces units that would follow.īringing 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. 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.

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 matériel. The incredible untold story of WWII's greatest secret fighting force, as told by our great modern master of wartime intrigue.īritain'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.

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