Table of Contents
List of Maps x
Foreword by the Rt. Hon. Viscount Slim xi
Author's Note xiii
A Note on Sources xvii
Prologue: Into the Dark 1
Part I War in the Desert
Chapter 1 Cowboy Soldier 5
Chapter 2 L Detachment 19
Chapter 3 Recruits 29
Chapter 4 Into the Desert 51
Chapter 5 The Long Range Desert Group 62
Chapter 6 Devil Country 68
Chapter 7 A Party of Ghosts 81
Chapter 8 Blitz Buggy 90
Chapter 9 Benghazi Bed-and-Breakfast 105
Chapter 10 Seven Airfields 121
Chapter 11 Mass Sabotage at Sidi Haneish 142
Chapter 12 Desert Doctors 157
Chapter 13 Quite, Quite Mad 171
Chapter 14 Alamein 185
Part II War in Europe
Chapter 15 Italy 209
Chapter 16 Bulbasket 231
Chapter 17 Houndsworth 245
Chapter 18 An Eye for an Eye 267
Chapter 19 Paddy McGinty's Goat 275
Chapter 20 A Predilection for Risk 284
Chapter 21 Battaglione Alleata 300
Chapter 22 Into the Reich 312
Chapter 23 Liberation 327
Chapter 24 Who Dares Survives 336
Acknowledgments 344
Afterlives 345
Wartime SAS Operations 352
Regimental Roll of Honor 356
Selected Bibliography 363
Photography Credits 365
Index 366