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(Paperback)

By: Gavin Mortimer

ISBN: 9781472122094
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2016
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2016
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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From one of the foremost experts on wartime British special forces, a new volume exploring the Long Range Desert Group


(Paperback)

By: Gavin Mortimer

ISBN: 9781472134578
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
UK Publication Date: 2nd March 2023
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The biography of David Stirling, founder of the SAS.


(Hardback)

By: Gavin Mortimer

ISBN: 9781472856739
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 12th October 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Drawing on recently declassified files and interviews with veterans, this is a fascinating history of Bill Stirling and 2SAS--pioneering founders of modern special forces.


(Paperback)

By: Gavin Mortimer

ISBN: 9781472846808
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
UK Publication Date: 27th May 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A history of the Special Air Service's lightweight, heavily armed vehicles and their combat use, ranging from the famous 1942 airfield raids of North Africa, the SAS Brigade's jeep-borne operations in Europe after D-Day, and 22 SAS's postwar adoption of much-modified Land Rovers for desert operations.


(Hardback)

By: Gavin Mortimer

ISBN: 9781472819338
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
UK Publication Date: 20th April 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Written by the foremost expert on British wartime special forces and illustrated with images that have not been seen in seventy years, this is a new history of the Long Range Desert Group.


(Hardback)

By: Gavin Mortimer

ISBN: 9781526769626
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
UK Publication Date: 30th October 2020
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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Highly illustrated history of 1 SAS's operations in 1944 in support of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France


(Paperback)

By: Gavin Mortimer

ISBN: 9781472842152
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
UK Publication Date: 18th February 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The specialised vehicles, kit, and techniques of the Long-Range Desert Group, who pioneered long-range desert warfare in World War II and worked closely with the embryonic SAS.


(Hardback)

By: Gavin Mortimer

ISBN: 9781472847096
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2022
UK Publication Date: 14th April 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Based on recently released wartime files, interviews with surviving veterans and previously unpublished private papers, this is the incredible story of the origins and operations of a wartime special forces unit that defied the odds.


(Paperback)

By: Gavin Mortimer

ISBN: 9781472134585
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The biography of David Stirling, founder of the SAS


(Paperback)

By: Gavin Mortimer

ISBN: 9781472135131
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
UK Publication Date: 6th May 2021
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A timely exploration of the twelve best qualities of the wartime generation - and how we can use these to improve our individual character and collective response in the face of crisis.


(Hardback)

By: Gavin Mortimer

ISBN: 9781472135124
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
UK Publication Date: 27th August 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A timely exploration of the twelve best qualities of the wartime generation - and how we can use these to improve our individual character and collective response in the face of crisis.


(Paperback)

By: Gavin Mortimer

ISBN: 9781472808752
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
UK Publication Date: 20th June 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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With a wealth of photographs, many from the SAS Regimental Archives, this book captures the danger and excitement of the initial SAS raids against Axis airfields during the Desert War, the battles in Italy and those following the D-Day landings, the dramatic final push into Germany itself and the discovery of such Nazi horrors as Belsen.


(Paperback)

By: Gavin Mortimer

ISBN: 9781472811134
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
UK Publication Date: 19th May 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The Special Boat Squadron was Britain's most exclusive Special Forces unit during World War II. Highly trained, and totally secretive, the SBS was established as an entity in its own right in early 1943. With the interviews of the surviving members of the unit, this title gathers the forgotten dramatic exploits of this fighting force.


(Paperback)

By: Gavin Mortimer

ISBN: 9781472801098
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In November 1941, a small party of British Commandos landed by submarine in Libya, tasked with the assassination of General Erwin Rommel, commander of the German forces in North Africa, who was believed to be staying in a villa near the coast.


(Paperback)

By: Gavin Mortimer

ISBN: 9781472807632
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The night of July 26, 1942 saw one of the most audacious raids of World War II, just as the outcome of that conflict hung in the balance. Featuring full-colour artwork, and incisive analysis, this study recounts the origins, planning, execution and aftermath of the daring raid that made the name of the SAS at the height of World War II.