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04223aam a2200445Ii 4500 001 1C1BE654AC1A11E890AE142197128E48 003 SILO 005 20180830010042 008 170113r20172016nyua b 001 0deng d 020 $a 1101904186 020 $a 9781101904183 035 $a (OCoLC)968771854 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $e rda $c BTCTA $d BDX $d YDX $d IEP $d ZQP $d OCLCF $d ZPP $d SILO 050 14 $a D760.S59 $b M33 2017 082 04 $a 940.54/1241 $2 23 100 1 $a Macintyre, Ben, $d 1963- $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92021540 $e author. 245 10 $a Rogue heroes : $b the history of the SAS, Britain's secret special forces unit that sabotaged the Nazis and changed the nature of war / $c Ben MacIntyre. 250 $a First U.S. paperback edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Broadway Books, $c [2017] 300 $a xvi, 379 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 21 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-364) and index. 520 $a The incredible untold story of WWII's greatest secret fighting force, as told by our great modern master of wartime intrigue. 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. --Publisher. 650 10 $a Great Britain. Army. Special Air Service $b Special Air Service $b Special Air Service $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024. $x History. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024. 650 10 $a Stirling, David, 1915-1990. $d 1915-1990. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79119034. 650 10 $a Lewes, Jock, 1913-1941. $d 1913-1941. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95048558. 650 10 $a Great Britain. Army. Special Air Service $b Special Air Service $b Special Air Service $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001237. $x Biography. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001237. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Great Britain. $x Great Britain. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010119646. 650 0 $a Special forces (Military science) $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006165. $x 20th century. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79023147 $x History $x 20th century. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006165. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Great Britain. $x Great Britain. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113852. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Africa, North. $x Africa, North. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148301. 650 7 $a Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423686. 650 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628. 650 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026049. 775 08 $i Reproduction of (manifestation): $a Macintyre, Ben, 1963- $t Rogue heroes $d New York : Crown, [2016] $w (DLC) 2016303874. 941 $a 4 952 $l WBPB115 $d 20230209023648.0 952 $l CNPC792 $d 20220105012533.0 952 $l FCPB384 $d 20200901010135.0 952 $l AJPE887 $d 20181013011406.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1C1BE654AC1A11E890AE142197128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search