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2sas - Bill Stirling and the Forgotten Special Forces Unit of World War II by Gavin Mortimer
$54.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Drawing on recently declassified files and interviews with veterans, this is a fascinating history of Bill Stirling and 2SAS. For far too long Bill's crucial wartime role has been overshadowed by his more famous brother David Stirling. Gavin Mortimer, a world expert on the wartime SAS, offers a groundbr ...Show more
David Stirling - The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS by Gavin Mortimer
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
, 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 ...Show more
David Stirling: The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS by Gavin Mortimer
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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 g ...Show more
SAS in Occupied France: 1 SAS Operations, June to October 1944 by GAVIN MORTIMER
$74.99 NZD
Category: Military History
In the world of military history there is no brand as potent as that of the SAS. They burst into global prominence in 1980 with their spectacular storming of the Iranian Embassy, and there have been hundreds of books, films, documentaries and even reality TV shows about them. But what there hasn't been ...Show more
The Daring Dozen: 12 Special Forces Legends of World War II by Gavin Mortimer
$49.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Series: General Military
In this new book, Gavin Mortimer reveals the 12 legendary Special Forces commanders of World War II. Prior to the war, the concept of 'special forces' simply didn't exist, but thanks to visionary leaders like David Stirling and Charles Hunter, our very concept of how wars can be fought and won has total ...Show more
The Long Range Desert Group in World War II by Gavin Mortimer
$57.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Established in June 1940, as the brainchild of scientist and soldier Major Ralph Bagnold, a contemporary of Lawrence of Arabia, the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) allowed the British Army to gain a crucial advantage in the North African Front of World War II. Traversing great swathes of the desert that ...Show more
The Men Who Made the SAS: The History of the Long Range Desert Group by Gavin Mortimer
$49.99 NZD
Category: History
Established in June 1940, the Long Range Desert Group was the inspiration of scientist and soldier Major Ralph Bagnold, a contemporary of T.E Lawrence who, in the inter-war years, explored the North African desert in a Model T Ford automobile. Mortimer takes us from the founding of the LRDG, through the ...Show more
The Men Who Made the SAS: The History of the Long Range Desert Group by Gavin Mortimer
$29.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Established in June 1940, the Long Range Desert Group was the inspiration of scientist and soldier Major Ralph Bagnold, a contemporary of T.E Lawrence who, in the inter-war years, explored the North African desert in a Model T Ford automobile. Mortimer takes us from the founding of the LRDG, through the ...Show more
The SAS in World War II: An Illustrated History by Gavin Mortimer
$59.99 NZD
Category: Military History
In this new book, WWII historian and regular Guardian contributor, Gavin Mortimer, eaxamines the pivotal events of one of the most famous military units of all time. Starting with the unit's formation in July 1941, Mortimer recreates the heady days when a young Scots' Guard officer called David Stirling ...Show more
Z Special Unit - The Elite Allied World War II Guerrilla Force by Gavin Mortimer
$55.00 NZD
Category: Military History
Leading expert Gavin Mortimer tells the remarkable origin story of a wartime special forces unit that defied the odds.Z Special Unit, one of the most intrepid but arguably the most unsung of Allied Special Forces of the Second World War waged a guerrilla war against Japan for two years in the south-west ...Show more
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