HSPLS site
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
Databases
HI Newspaper
eBooks/Audiobooks
Learning
PC Reservation
Reading Program
Basic
Advanced
Power
History
Search:
Title Browse
Author Browse
Subject Browse
Best Seller Browse
Music Title Browse
Video/DVD Title Browse
Journal/Newspaper Title Browse
Serial Title Browse
Series Browse (includes Bestseller List)
General Keyword
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
Name Keyword
Series Keyword
Score Title Browse
Talking Book Title Browse
Awards Note Browse
Bib No.
Barcode
Refine Search
> You're searching:
HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
Item Information
Holdings
Summary
More Content
More by this author
Macintyre, Ben, 1963- author.
Subjects
Great Britain. Army. Special Air Service -- History.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Commando operations -- Great Britain.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- Great Britain.
Special forces (Military science) -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Macintyre, Ben, 1963- author.
by title:
Rogue heroes : the h...
MARC Display
Rogue heroes : the history of the SAS, Britain's secret special forces unit that sabotaged the Nazis and changed the nature of war / Ben MacIntyre.
by
Macintyre, Ben, 1963- author.
New York : Crown, c2016.
Subjects
Great Britain. Army. Special Air Service -- History.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Commando operations -- Great Britain.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- Great Britain.
Special forces (Military science) -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9781101904169 (hardcover) :
110190416X (hardcover)
Description:
xvi, 380 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Requests:
0
Summary:
Britain's Special Air Service--or SAS--was the brainchild of David Stirling, a young, gadabout aristocrat with a remarkable strategic mind. Where his colleagues looked at a 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 Nazi lines and sabotage their airplanes and supplies. 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.--Adapted from dust jacket and publisher description.
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Status
Aina Haina Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
940.54124 Ma
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Hawaii State Library
Language, Literature & History
940.54124 Ma
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Kailua-Kona Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
940.54124 Ma
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Kapolei Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
940.54124 Ma
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Kihei Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
940.54124 Ma
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Liliha Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
940.54124 Ma
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Mililani Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
940.54124 Ma
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Nanakuli Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
940.54124 Ma
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Waianae Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
940.54124 Ma
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.