the_grimm_reader 's review for:

Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War by Ben Macintyre

5.0

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This book earned its 5 stars, and I’d give it more if I could. It’s an absolutely thorough history of the British Special Air Service’s origins and early history, written with a style and tempo that paints each actor in these theaters of World War II in bold, sweeping strokes, and meticulous detail. We meet the men as they were, all of their pre-existing baggage included, and follow them on into and through the final days of the war. This is the highly engaging, interesting, and often tragic Chapter 1 for every special operations unit since. Cheers to these “desert rats,” and their service to their brothers and their daring endeavors to crush the wave of Nazism and Fascism. “Who Dares Wins.”