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Appendix I ATTACK ON ENEMY SHIPPING WITH LIMPETS The incidents described below in which enemy shipping was damaged or sunk through being attacked with Limpet Mines have been selected from a large number of official Admiralty reports on the subject. On 7 December 1942, a raid against shipping at Bordeaux was carried out under the code-name Operation

While still nursing their wounds they were given lessons in field-craft by David Stirling (who went on to found the SAS) and Lord Lovat (who was to become captain of the Lovat Scouts).

Six months earlier, Conner had been on mundane duty as an inspector. The combination of Palmer’s misfortune and Conner’s own perseverance placed Fox Conner in position to direct the development and deployment of an army that would number in the millions and play a decisive role in the deadliest war humankind had fought to that time. In James G. Har

After being briefed by Stirling on an impending attack on Benghazi, and the way that the SAS represented ‘a new form of warfare’ which had ‘awesome potential’, Churchill quoted to Smuts the lines from Byron’s Don Juan: ‘He was the mildest-mannered man / That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.’ The next day, he summoned Stirling to the Embassy to d

Contents List of Illustrations Maps Abbreviations and Acronyms Prologue 1 Day Trip to Dieppe, 1942 2 The Godfather 3 Technology and War 4 The Philosophy of the Pinch 5 Doing Deals 6 The Commandos Get Cracking 7 Mapping the Future 8 Mayhem in the Maghreb 9 Testing the Waters 10 Invasion of the Islands 11 Freeing the French 12 Breakthrough 13 Operati