This book has many strengths but perhaps its greatest is how thought-provoking it is (Laurence Rees Sunday Times) Delivers stories of tremendous adventure and derring-do, but also offers more than straightforward military history. No one will ever tell it better than this ( Evening Standard)Įxcellent. The SAS are still about the best of their kind, and how they began to achieve this is an exotic saga indeed.
At times there is more than a whiff of PG Wodehouse or Evelyn Waugh.
Macintyre has a wonderful eye for eccentricity, and the narrative is peppered with extraordinary characters. Impeccably researched, superbly told - by far the best book on the SAS in World War II (Antony Beevor)
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