This is an amazing story and very well written. It strikes a great balance between sharing meticulous historical facts and telling the story in an engaging and, when appropriate, entertaining way.
SAS Ghost Patrol tells of the forming of the units in WW2 that would later make up units like the SAS.
I sometimes struggle with stories such as these. The men involved were all heroic. But, many of them were necessarily brutal. The men who made up the ranks of the units that were precursors to the SAS and then the SAS itself were not ordinary soldiers. Often, they were men who didn’t fit in regular units.
They had to create a whole new form of warfare to fight a new kind of war. Much of what they did is familiar to us today, but at the time it was unheard of.
In the end, their trek across 2000 miles of desert in order to strike at the enemy was stranger and greater than any fiction. It’s the kind of heroics that if someone made it up it would be called unbelievable.
It is one of the best books I’ve listened to in a long time.
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