2SAS: Bill Stirling and the forgotten special forces unit of World War II

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This is because the books is a cleared item. In this gripping and controversial biography Gavin Mortimer analyses Stirling's complex character: the childhood speech impediment that shaped his formative years, the pressure from his overbearing mother, his fraught relationship with his brother, Bill, and the jealousy and inferiority he felt in the presence of his SAS second-in-command, the cold-blooded killer Paddy Mayne. The authorised illustrated history of the SAS by the number one bestselling author of Dunkirk, Joshua Levine. The lie was so effective that soon a small band of men were brought together to make it real. These recruits were the toughest and brightest of their cohort, the most resilient, most dynamic and most self-sufficient. His formation of the Special Air Service in the summer of 1941 led to a new form of warfare and Stirling is remembered as the father of special forces soldiering. With never-before-seen photographs and unheard stories, this is the SAS�_Ts wartime history in vivid and astonishing detail. The SAS began as a lie, a story of a British parachute unit in the North African desert, to convince the Axis they were under imminent threat. Weight: 1044g Dimension: 241 x 164 x 35 (mm) ISBN-13: 9781526787514 Some books MAY have a red or black dot or line on the edge of the page by the spine.