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David Stirling: Founder Of The Sas: The Authorised Biography of the Founder of the SAS

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He also attempted to organise efforts to undermine trades unionism and to overthrow the British government, none of which made significant headway. In the dark and uncertain days of 1941 and 1942, when Rommel's Afrika Korps was sweeping towards Egypt and the Suez Canal, a small group of daring raiders made history for the Allies.Woodhouse's first assignment was to go to Yemen to report on the state of the royalist forces when a cease-fire was declared. He was the son of Brigadier-General Archibald Stirling, of Keir, and Margaret Fraser, daughter of Simon Fraser, the Lord Lovat (a descendant of Charles II). The answer probably lies in the fact that he was a powerful, influential and litigious man, who had friends in high places and - through his private security company that supplied mercenaries to the world's trouble spots - associates in dark ones. Following his convalescence, he wrote later, he broke into the GHQ in Cairo in July 1941 to deliver a memorandum about his parachute raiding force that eventually led to the formation of the SAS. The story of Stirling’s unfortunate encounter with Schurch has been told before, notably by Ben Macintyre in his bestselling SAS: Rogue Heroes.

His service (he has fought in the desert, amongst other places) has given him a deep understanding of the SAS.The unit was given the deliberately misleading name "L Detachment, Special Air Service Brigade" to reinforce Dudley Clarke's deception of a parachute brigade existing in North Africa. Stirling - who neither attended Mayne's funeral or paid tribute to his exploits - came back to Britain and was soon collaborating with a well-known American biographer, Virginia Cowles, on his war memoir. Guards) Commando under Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Laycock, which became part of Force Z (later named " Layforce"). Stirling explained his plan to Ritchie, immediately after which Ritchie persuaded Auchinleck to allow Stirling to form a new special operations unit. Drafted into the Scots Guards at the outbreak of the war, he soon wound up at Bill’s Commando training school, where Bill quickly learned ‘what the Guards had known for several months: David Stirling was indolent and temperamental, a disruptive influence’.

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