David Stirling: The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS

Author: Gavin Mortimer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Aristocrat, gambler, innovator and special forces legend, the life of David Stirling should need no retelling. 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. But was he really a military genius or in fact a shameless self-publicist who manipulated people, and the truth, for this own ends? In this...Read more