Thirty vivid stories including some new & previously unpublished supported by an updated selection of rare archive & action photographs explore the larger-than-life escapades of the Special Air Service in the Second World War. From an SAS Jeep patrol in France outnumbered fifty-to-one who shot their way out to safety in their bullet-riddled vehicle & killed a quarter of their SS opposition to an SAS soldier who talked his way through enemy roadblocks in North Africa in full British uniform & tore a strip off the guard for neglecting to check his papers this is the first comprehensive collection of all the best stories in one book.