All the books by Ben Macintyre adapted to cinema and television, ranked

Using original witnesses, Ben Macintyre recreates the remarkable story of how one brilliant team, and one dead tramp, pulled off a deception which changed the course of WWII.

The blockbuster book by Ben Macintyre, which chronicles the formation of the SAS—the world’s premier Special Forces unit—under unusual circumstances during the darkest hours of World War Two—is the basis for SAS Rogue Heroes.

When Kim Philby, a close friend and colleague who works as an intelligence officer for MI6, decides to defect to Russia in 1963 after secretly serving as a double agent for the KGB, Nicholas Elliott, who is MI6’s intelligence officer, is left in disarray.

Set in 1943, when the Allies are determined to launch an all-out assault on Fortress Europe. But they face an impossible challenge – to protect a massive invasion force from entrenched German firepower and avert a potential massacre. It falls to two brilliant intelligence officers to dream the most inspired and improbable disinformation strategy of the war.