LEADER 00000cim 2200421Ii 4500 001 958017475 003 OCoLC 005 20161201114733.0 007 sd fungnnmmneu 008 160907s2016 nyunnnn hz n eng d 020 9780735288096 020 0735288097 028 02 PRHA 6012|bPenguin Random House Audio 035 (OCoLC)958017475 040 TEFMT|beng|erda|cTEFMT|dTEF|dUtOrBLW 043 e-uk--- 092 940.541241|bMAC 100 1 Macintyre, Ben,|d1963-|eauthor,|enarrator. 245 10 Rogue heroes|h[UNABRIDGED sound recording] :|bthe history of the SAS, Britain's secret special forces unit that sabotaged the Nazis and changed the nature of the war / |cBen MacIntyre. 250 Unabridged. 264 1 New York, New York :|bRandom House Audio,|c[2016] 300 11 audio discs (13 hr.) :|bCD audio, digital ;|c4 3/4 in. 336 spoken word|bspw|2rdacontent 337 audio|bs|2rdamedia 338 audio disc|bsd|2rdacarrier 344 digital|2rda 347 audio file|bCD audio|2rda 511 0 Read by the author. 520 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. 538 Compact discs. 588 Title from container. 610 10 Great Britain.|bArmy.|bSpecial Air Service|xHistory|vSound recordings. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945|xCommando operations|zGreat Britain |vSound recordings. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945|xRegimental histories|zGreat Britain |vSound recordings. 650 0 Special forces (Military science)|zGreat Britain|xHistory |y20th century|vSound recordings. 655 7 Audiobooks.|2lcgft
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