Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War

by Ben Macintyre

the invasion of Sicily: more than three thousand ships carrying 160,000 soldiers, the combined forces of Montgomery’s Eighth Army and the US Seventh Army under General George Patton. D-Day in Sicily was set for the early hours of July 10, 1943. The task of the SRS was to knock out the artillery defenses at a key point on the Sicilian coast: Capo Murro di Porco—Cape of the Pig’s Snout—a distinctly nasal promontory stretching