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The Who Dares Wins Pioneers

The origins story of the SAS is a myth
This is the real story of how the worlds preeminent Special Forces came into existence

Speed Aggression Surprise is a flyonthewall characterdriven story of how from the wreckage of Dunkirk emerged the idea of guerrilla Commando units who could inflict devastating mosquito stings on larger and betterarmed opponents

Its a story of how the shock of defeat 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 Its a story that comes together in the corridors of headquarters on long nights at the long bar in Shepherds Hotel in Cairo and on the deadliest battlefields in history around a cast of insubordinate mavericks who didnt fit into the tight military hierarchy

Jumping between dramatic accounts from the field and backchannel power negotiations and pulling 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

Tom Petch 2022 P Penguin Audio 2022