David Stirling: The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS
By Gavin Mortimer
Constable £25
In Perthshire there’s a statue of David Stirling, commemorated as founder of the SAS. According to this deeply researched book, they’ve got the wrong man.
, an account of Stirling’s wartime achievements, was published in 1958. It described how, following commando training, he formed the SAS as a guerrilla force for raiding behind enemy lines in
