David Stirling : the phoney major : the life, times and truth about the founder of the SAS
Mortimer, Gavin2022
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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 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.
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Author:
Mortimer, Gavin, author
Imprint:
London : Constable, 2022.
Collation:
448 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781472134592 (hbk)
Dewey class:
355.0092B STI920920STI920 STI355.009
LC class:
U55
Local class:
B STI355.0092
Language:
English
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BRN:
3071854
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