Gavin Mortimer is a writer, historian and consultant whose groundbreaking book Stirling's Men remains the definitive history of the wartime SAS as a whole. He has also written histories of the SBS and the LRDG, again drawing heavily on veteran interviews. His most recent book, David Stirling: The Phoney Major, was critically acclaimed and featured in several national newspapers. He was the National Army Museum's consultant for their major exhibition on history of special forces.
Vivid and meticulously researched... Gavin Mortimer has certainly done the history of the SAS justice in this book. -- Paul de Zulueta * The Spectator *