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Alistair Knox
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
... See moreAndrew Roberts • Churchill: Walking with Destiny
It was at the bar of White’s, one of the most exclusive gentleman’s clubs in London, that Stirling first learned about a form of soldiering that seemed much closer to the adventure and excitement he had in mind: a crack new commando unit intended to hit important enemy targets with maximum impact. Stirling’s cousin Lord Lovat had been among the fir
... See moreBen Macintyre • Rogue Heroes
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
... See moreAndrew Roberts • Churchill: Walking with Destiny
Jim Hill worked incessantly at improving every aspect of the railroad’s structure and operation. He traveled back and forth along the line in his business car, looking for dips and bumps and spying out curves that could be straightened and grades that could be lessened. More than any other railroad leader of the day, he had an engineer’s passion fo
... See moreMichael P. Malone • James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest (The Oklahoma Western Biographies Book 12)
On 7 November David Stirling was posted to No. 8 Commando, then at Largs on the Ayrshire coast.
Gavin Mortimer • David Stirling
Using the rule of thumb that experience had taught—one foot up for every foot of water below—Coe and Krome knew that this bridge had to be built on taller, more massive pilings than any before, in order to keep the rails above the reach of the worst hurricane-driven seas.
Les Standiford • Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
the 1.5 mile-long Skye Bridge that connects the island of Skye to the village of Kyle of Lochalsh on the mainland.
Ross Edgley • The Art of Resilience: Strategies for an Unbreakable Mind and Body
Finally, through some combination of convincing, cajolery, and perhaps promises, the associates persuaded him to stand aside and allow Hill—who was already handling supply and other matters—to take over the supervision of construction. Assigning the direct work to a favorite contractor, David Robbins, Hill now entered one of the most dynamic phases
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