Speed Aggression Surprise - Tom Petch Kartoniert (TB)

'Awesome!' - Andy McNab'You must read this book' - Colonel Tim Collins OBE'Page-turning and revelatory' - Sir Ranulph Fiennes_________________The official origin story of the SAS is a myth.This is the real story of how the world's preeminent Special Forces was born.It's a fly-on-the-wall character-driven story of the origins of a new means of warfare forged from the wreckage of Dunkirk. It's the birth of subliminal methods - guerrilla Commando units that could inflict devastating 'mosquito stings' on larger and better-armed opponents.It's a never-before-told account of how the shock of defe at propelled an unlikely group of renegades into the frontline of the war. An adventure that reaches back from the trenches of the Western Front to high piracy in the deserts of North Africa to the final assault on Germany. It's a concept that takes shape in the corridors of headquarters on long nights at the long bar in Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo and on the deadliest battlefields in history around a cast of insubordinate mavericks who didn't fit into the tight hierarchy of the armed forces.Flashing between dramatic accounts from the field and back-channel power negotiations in Westminster reeling in a cast of characters that includes Evelyn Waugh Ernest Hemingway and Randolph Churchill as well as a lot of alcohol amphetamines and grenades this is the real story of the SAS as you have never seen it before.