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1786483114

SAS ghost patrol : the ultra-secret unit that posed as Nazi Stormtroopers.

Author: Lewis, Damien.

Publication year: 2017

Language: English

Media class: Hardback

Classification: 940.5412

Publisher: London : Quercus, 2017.

ISBN: 1786483114 9781786483119 (hbk): 20.00

Notes:

This is the explosive true story of the day in 1942 when the SAS donned Nazi uniforms to perpetrate the most audacious and daring mission of the war. Beyond top secret, deniable in the extreme (and of course enjoying Churchill's enthusiastic blessing), this is one of the most remarkable stories of wartime lawlessness, eccentricity and raw courage in the face of impossible odds - a thoroughly British undertaking. What unfolded - the longest mission ever undertaken by Allied special forces - was an epic of daring, courage, tragedy and survival that remains unrivalled to this day, and which rightly became a foundation stone of Special Forces legend.