This was exactly the sort of operation which the generals hated (the men would not be under their control) and romantic Churchill loved. David Stirling is usually credited with having the idea of small groups of highly trained men operating behind enemy lines, disrupting supply lines and destroying weapons. Although MacIntyre has researched just about everything to do with special forces, he makes it clear from the start that the book is for the general reader and explains what he’s left out and why. I’ll say straight away that this is a brilliant book.
Reading about spies, you know that their activities lead to deaths but it all happens offstage as it were here, the deaths are all too real and make painful reading. I found myself in different territory with his book about the SAS. Spying is a dirty game, yet I’m fascinated by spy stories, whether fictional or the factual ones by Ben MacIntyre, all of which I’ve enjoyed.
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