The incredible untold story of WWII’s greatest secret fighting force, as told by our great modern master of wartime intrigue, Ben Macintyre uses his unprecedented access to SAS archives and brings his keen eye for psychological detail to a riveting wartime narrative. The result is not just a tremendous war story, but a fascinating group portrait of men of whom history and country asked the most. 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…