{"id":15932,"date":"2022-07-06T13:31:57","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T11:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=211167"},"modified":"2022-07-06T13:52:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T11:52:08","slug":"david-stirling-sas-hero-or-fraud","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/david-stirling-sas-hero-or-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"David Stirling: SAS hero or fraud?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Rob Attar\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Wednesday, 06 July 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Special forces historian Gavin Mortimer casts a critical eye over David Stirling, who is renowned as the founder of the SAS in the Second World War. Speaking to Rob Attar, Mortimer argues that Stirling\u2019s wartime record was far less impressive than he claimed and that his legend has obscured the achievements of those around him.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-211167-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/07\/SASstirling-6da7c85.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/07\/SASstirling-6da7c85.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/07\/SASstirling-6da7c85.mp3<\/a><\/audio><p><strong>Gavin Mortimer is the author of <em>David Stirling: The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS<\/em> (Little Brown, 2022)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/books\/david-stirling-the-phoney-major-the-life-times-and-truth-about-the-founder-of-the-sas\/9781472134592&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/David-Stirling-Phoney-Major-Founder\/dp\/1472134591?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Buy now on Amazon<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/david-stirling\/gavin-mortimer\/9781472134592&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Waterstones<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rob Attar Published: Wednesday, 06 July 2022 at 12:00 am Special forces historian Gavin Mortimer casts a critical eye over David Stirling, who is renowned as the founder of the SAS in the Second World War. 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