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

In May 1945, Barkworth, Sergeant Major Fred “Dusty” Rhodes, and four SAS troopers climbed into a truck and a single jeep, and headed for the Continent: this was the War Crimes Investigation Team (WCIT), but in effect it was the last wartime mission of the SAS, unauthorized, unconventional, and therefore, in a way, entirely apt.