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Brothers in arms

2SAS: Bill Stirling and the Forgotten Special Forces Unit of World War II

By Gavin Mortimer

Osprey £25

Bill Stirling was my beloved grandfather, who loved to rag around with my brother and me as kids at Keir, his Scottish estate.

Sadly, he died when I was just 16, before I had the wit to ask him about the war. So I was looking forward to Mortimer's book about him and 2SAS Regiment, its teething troubles, failures, and successes in raiding behind

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