The Phantom Major - Virginia Cowles

Category: Autobiography & Biographies, History, Military
Language: English
Keywords: Major David Stirling SAS WWII

Written by Virginia Cowles
Read by Robert Whitfield
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

The Phantom Major
By: Virginia Cowles
Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
Release date
25-02-2005
Language
English
Format
Audiobook
Length
8 hrs and 46 mins
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Categories
History

In the dark and uncertain days of 1941 and 1942, when Rommel’s tanks were sweeping towards Suez, a handful of daring raiders were making history for the Allies. They operated deep behind the German lines, often driving hundreds of miles through the deserts of North Africa. They hid by day and struck by night, destroying aircraft, blowing up ammunition dumps, derailing trains, and killing many times their own number.
These were the SAS, Stirling’s desert raiders, the brainchild of a deceptively mild-mannered man with a brilliant idea. Small teams of resourceful, highly trained men would penetrate beyond the front lines of the opposing armies and wreak havoc where the Germans least expected it.

The Phantom Major is the classic account of these desert raids, an amazing tale of courage, impudence, and daring, packed with action and high adventure. An intimate record based on eyewitness accounts, this book still stands as the definitive history of the early years of the SAS.

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