The SAS in World War II: An Illustrated History

Starting with the units formation in July 1941, Mortimer recreates the heady days when a young Scots Guard officer called David Stirling persuaded MEHQ to give its backing to a small band of 60 men christened L Detachment. From there, drawing on over 100 hours of interviews with veterans (much of which has never before been published) he describes the early raids in the desert against Axis airfields that inflicted a deadly cost on the enemy.
Embellished with 150 stunning photographs, the majority of which have never before been printed, the book also features side panels on the Lewes bomb, selection and training of personnel, the importance of the French and Belgian squadrons and how the French resistance helped the regiment in 1944.