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| Tango01 | 20 Dec 2018 12:40 p.m. PST |
…. than 20 top secret WWII operations behind enemy lines in Italy even while their Colonel was being held in a high-security PoW camp. "The full story of Britain's elite Special Forces' operations in Italy during World War Two has been revealed in a new book. In the summer of 1943, the Special Air Service came out of Africa to carry the fight to the Germans and Fascists in Sicily and on the mainland. At the time, the originator of the SAS, Colonel David Stirling, was held in Italy's high-security Prisoner of War Camp Five at Gavi in Piedmont. But his work continued…."
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Wackmole9  | 20 Dec 2018 2:24 p.m. PST |
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| Legion 4 | 20 Dec 2018 3:42 p.m. PST |
WOW !!!!  |
| Vigilant | 21 Dec 2018 5:48 a.m. PST |
See Damian Lewis' book of the same name published earlier this year. |
| Tango01 | 21 Dec 2018 11:52 a.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it my friends!. (smile)
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| HappyHussar | 23 Dec 2018 8:06 p.m. PST |
For years I have been reading "Stirling's Desert Raiders" by Virginia Cowles. Of all historical books I read I have read this one the most. I can pick it up at any point and read it. I highly recommend that book. |
| Tango01 | 24 Dec 2018 11:45 a.m. PST |
Thanks!.
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| Mobius | 24 Dec 2018 11:58 a.m. PST |
So the notorious Colonel David Stirling's work continued. Was he self-serving? |
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