About the Book

The SAS Peanut Club is the unofficial history of the most eccentric fraternity ever to operate inside Britain's most secretive fighting force. It is not a conventional military history. It won't quote field reports or footnote debriefings. It is an ode to the untamed spirit that has long flourished in the shadows of the SAS — a spirit of defiance, madness, and unbreakable brotherhood.

From the deserts of North Africa to the pubs of Hereford, from mercenary campaigns to modern-day whispers, the book traces the men who could disarm a room with a joke or a grenade, depending on the audience. Diving out of planes in dinner jackets. Using explosives to brew tea. Missions planned on napkins and executed with brilliance, bravado, and baffling luck.

Some of what follows is fact. Some of it is folklore. All of it is, in its own way, true.