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Specifiche dell'oggetto
- Condizione
- Publication Date
- 2016-10-04
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN
- 110190416X
Informazioni su questo prodotto
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Potter/Ten SPEED/Harmony/Rodale
ISBN-10
110190416X
ISBN-13
9781101904169
eBay Product ID (ePID)
14038770971
Product Key Features
Book Title
Rogue Heroes : The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Military / Special Forces, Military / World War II, Espionage, Europe / Great Britain / General
Publication Year
2016
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
True Crime, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
24.2 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2016-303874
Reviews
"Macintyre writes with the diligence and insight of a journalist, and the panache of a born storyteller" --John Banville "By far the best book on the SAS in World War II--impeccably researched and superbly told." --Antony Beevor, author of D-Day and Stalingrad ""We all have to come from somewhere. Rogue Heroes gives a glimpse deep down the rabbit hole into how the special forces world started. This is a great look into how a motivated bunch of bad asses changed the tide of war and carved the path for the rest of us to follow." --Marcus Luttrell, U.S. Navy Seal, author of Lone Survivor, "Ben Macintyre's suspenseful new book, Rogue Heroes , about the founding of Britain's S.A.S. during World War II, reads like a mashup of "The Dirty Dozen" and "The Great Escape," with a sprinkling of "Ocean's 11" thrown in for good measure... Mr. Macintyre draws sharp, Dickensian portraits of these men, and he displays his usual gifts here for creating a cinematic narrative that races along... Mr. Macintyre is masterly in using details to illustrate his heroes' bravery, lan and dogged perseverance...a gripping account of the early days of S.A.S." --Michiko Kakutani, New York Times "[A] riveting new history... Macintyre has produced yet another wonderful book... even minor characters bristle with life....[ Rogue Heroes ] is a ripping good read." --The Washington Post "[ Rogue Heroes is ] a thrilling saga, breathtakingly told, full of daring and heroes." --The Boston Globe "Macintyre writes with the diligence and insight of a journalist, and the panache of a born storyteller" --John Banville "By far the best book on the SAS in World War II--impeccably researched and superbly told." --Antony Beevor, author of D-Day and Stalingrad ""We all have to come from somewhere. Rogue Heroes gives a glimpse deep down the rabbit hole into how the special forces world started. This is a great look into how a motivated bunch of bad asses changed the tide of war and carved the path for the rest of us to follow." --Marcus Luttrell, U.S. Navy Seal, author of Lone Survivor, "Ben Macintyre's suspenseful new book, Rogue Heroes , about the founding of Britain's S.A.S. during World War II, reads like a mashup of "The Dirty Dozen" and "The Great Escape," with a sprinkling of "Ocean's 11" thrown in for good measure... Mr. Macintyre draws sharp, Dickensian portraits of these men, and he displays his usual gifts here for creating a cinematic narrative that races along... Mr. Macintyre is masterly in using details to illustrate his heroes' bravery, lan and dogged perseverance...a gripping account of the early days of S.A.S." --Michiko Kakutani, New York Times "[ Rogue Heroes is] the best and most complete version of the tale...a highly enjoyable and entertaining narrative." --New York Times Book Review "" Rogue Heroes is a terrific story of human enterprise, endurance and achievement and vividly brings to life an extraordinary cast of characters.... An absorbing story of derring-do, told with skill and flair." --Wall Street Journal "[A] riveting new history... Macintyre has produced yet another wonderful book... even minor characters bristle with life....[ Rogue Heroes ] is a ripping good read." --The Washington Post "[ Rogue Heroes is ] a thrilling saga, breathtakingly told, full of daring and heroes." --The Boston Globe "Macintyre writes with the diligence and insight of a journalist, and the panache of a born storyteller" --John Banville "By far the best book on the SAS in World War II--impeccably researched and superbly told." --Antony Beevor, author of D-Day and Stalingrad ""We all have to come from somewhere. Rogue Heroes gives a glimpse deep down the rabbit hole into how the special forces world started. This is a great look into how a motivated bunch of bad asses changed the tide of war and carved the path for the rest of us to follow." --Marcus Luttrell, U.S. Navy Seal, author of Lone Survivor, "Ben Macintyre's suspenseful new book, Rogue Heroes , about the founding of Britain's S.A.S. during World War II, reads like a mashup of "The Dirty Dozen" and "The Great Escape," with a sprinkling of "Ocean's 11" thrown in for good measure... Mr. Macintyre draws sharp, Dickensian portraits of these men, and he displays his usual gifts here for creating a cinematic narrative that races along... Mr. Macintyre is masterly in using details to illustrate his heroes' bravery, lan and dogged perseverance...a gripping account of the early days of S.A.S." --Michiko Kakutani, New York Times ""[A] riveting new history." -- Washington Post "Macintyre writes with the diligence and insight of a journalist, and the panache of a born storyteller" --John Banville "By far the best book on the SAS in World War II--impeccably researched and superbly told." --Antony Beevor, author of D-Day and Stalingrad ""We all have to come from somewhere. Rogue Heroes gives a glimpse deep down the rabbit hole into how the special forces world started. This is a great look into how a motivated bunch of bad asses changed the tide of war and carved the path for the rest of us to follow." --Marcus Luttrell, U.S. Navy Seal, author of Lone Survivor, "Ben Macintyre's suspenseful new book, Rogue Heroes , about the founding of Britain's S.A.S. during World War II, reads like a mashup of "The Dirty Dozen" and "The Great Escape," with a sprinkling of "Ocean's 11" thrown in for good measure... Mr. Macintyre draws sharp, Dickensian portraits of these men, and he displays his usual gifts here for creating a cinematic narrative that races along... Mr. Macintyre is masterly in using details to illustrate his heroes' bravery, lan and dogged perseverance...a gripping account of the early days of S.A.S." --Michiko Kakutani, New York Times "[ Rogue Heroes is] the best and most complete version of the tale...a highly enjoyable and entertaining narrative." --New York Times Book Review "[A] riveting new history... Macintyre has produced yet another wonderful book... even minor characters bristle with life....[ Rogue Heroes ] is a ripping good read." --The Washington Post "[ Rogue Heroes is ] a thrilling saga, breathtakingly told, full of daring and heroes." --The Boston Globe "Macintyre writes with the diligence and insight of a journalist, and the panache of a born storyteller" --John Banville "By far the best book on the SAS in World War II--impeccably researched and superbly told." --Antony Beevor, author of D-Day and Stalingrad ""We all have to come from somewhere. Rogue Heroes gives a glimpse deep down the rabbit hole into how the special forces world started. This is a great look into how a motivated bunch of bad asses changed the tide of war and carved the path for the rest of us to follow." --Marcus Luttrell, U.S. Navy Seal, author of Lone Survivor, Named a "Top 10 Title for 2016" by the Washington Post "Ben Macintyre's suspenseful new book, Rogue Heroes , about the founding of Britain's S.A.S. during World War II, reads like a mashup of "The Dirty Dozen" and "The Great Escape," with a sprinkling of "Ocean's 11" thrown in for good measure... Mr. Macintyre draws sharp, Dickensian portraits of these men, and he displays his usual gifts here for creating a cinematic narrative that races along... Mr. Macintyre is masterly in using details to illustrate his heroes' bravery, lan and dogged perseverance...a gripping account of the early days of S.A.S." --Michiko Kakutani, New York Times "[ Rogue Heroes is] the best and most complete version of the tale...a highly enjoyable and entertaining narrative." --New York Times Book Review "One of the remarkable aspects of Macintyre's authorized-if-not-official history is that he keeps a cool hand on the theatrics...while maintaining an edge-of-the-seat narrative. The exploits have an authentic feel...and it is no easy thing to capture the spell of dire circumstance and distill it in such a way to be experiential to those who've never spent a moment wondering where in the darkness that sniper is." --Christian Science Monitor " Rogue Heroes is a terrific story of human enterprise, endurance and achievement and vividly brings to life an extraordinary cast of characters.... An absorbing story of derring-do, told with skill and flair." --Wall Street Journal "[A] riveting new history... Macintyre has produced yet another wonderful book... even minor characters bristle with life....[ Rogue Heroes ] is a ripping good read." --The Washington Post "[ Rogue Heroes is ] a thrilling saga, breathtakingly told, full of daring and heroes." --The Boston Globe "Macintyre writes with the diligence and insight of a journalist, and the panache of a born storyteller" --John Banville "By far the best book on the SAS in World War II--impeccably researched and superbly told." --Antony Beevor, author of D-Day and Stalingrad ""We all have to come from somewhere. Rogue Heroes gives a glimpse deep down the rabbit hole into how the special forces world started. This is a great look into how a motivated bunch of bad asses changed the tide of war and carved the path for the rest of us to follow." --Marcus Luttrell, U.S. Navy Seal, author of Lone Survivor, "Ben Macintyre's suspenseful new book, Rogue Heroes , about the founding of Britain's S.A.S. during World War II, reads like a mashup of "The Dirty Dozen" and "The Great Escape," with a sprinkling of "Ocean's 11" thrown in for good measure... Mr. Macintyre draws sharp, Dickensian portraits of these men, and he displays his usual gifts here for creating a cinematic narrative that races along... Mr. Macintyre is masterly in using details to illustrate his heroes' bravery, lan and dogged perseverance...a gripping account of the early days of S.A.S." --Michiko Kakutani, New York Times "Macintyre writes with the diligence and insight of a journalist, and the panache of a born storyteller" --John Banville "By far the best book on the SAS in World War II--impeccably researched and superbly told." --Antony Beevor, author of D-Day and Stalingrad ""We all have to come from somewhere. Rogue Heroes gives a glimpse deep down the rabbit hole into how the special forces world started. This is a great look into how a motivated bunch of bad asses changed the tide of war and carved the path for the rest of us to follow." --Marcus Luttrell, U.S. Navy Seal, author of Lone Survivor
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
940.54/1241
Synopsis
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.
LC Classification Number
D760.S59M33 2016
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