David Stirling: SAS hero or fraud?
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Aristocrats in the Middle East
David sterling wasn't one of the instructors. This is another myth that he's put out there. David was in the scotts guards. He was a dreadful guardsman. And evelin war, the novelist, remembered sterling as someone who spent most of his time gambling or asleep in his bunk. So it was really bill ling who came up with the idea of the s a s. H Q, now, another great fallacy that david sterling are propagated was that he broke into g h q,. Or in another version, he climbed under the fence and he got into g preposterous.
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