SAS Founder: Warrior or Phoney?
Dan Snow's History Hit
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'David Sterling'
i suggest in the book, dan, that david sterling subconsciously probably wanted to be captured. It was his way out. In september 19 forty two, the s a s had expanded from a unit to become a regiment. And i discovered some signals sent from london, sent from mount batton, instructing sterling to come back to london. But he also feared that he was going to have his baby, if you like, the sA s, the only thing that had given him any purpose in life, taken away from him. So what he did was, instead, he went to the one place where no one could contact him, up the blue - slang for
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