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He astro-navigated 18 Jeeps across 70 miles of desert without lights or maps – then inadvertently drove through the pursuing German column

Mike Sadler, who has died aged 103, was a former MI6 officer and an honorary member of “the Originals”, as men of L Detachment of the early SAS are known. He was believed to be the last survivor of the Long Range Desert Group or LRDG, without which the fledgling SAS might not have thrived. He also has a piece of the Antarctic named after him.

It’s a story of extravagant lies, homemade bombs and adrenaline-pumped commandos. Joshua Levine charts the formative years of the SAS through the exploits of four extraordinary servicemen

 Chapter Fifteen - The Red Army Shatters the Wehrmacht at Great Human Cost - The Falsification of History That the USA Defeated Nazi Germany During the Second

What events happened on 26 March in history? We round up the events, births and deaths…

(March 17, 2023) This week, 80 years ago, the Allied Eighth Army’s XXX Corps, commanded by Lt.-Gen. Oliver Leese, assaulted the Mareth Line, in Tunisia, which was defended by Gen.

Editor's note: This is the first installment of a two-part series on the contemporary challenges to offensive maneuver based on observations from the war

‘As the fragments whizzed only inches overhead, hope fading, I thought: “This one is it, this time it will hit me”’

When Canada unveiled the gleaming white Avro Arrow in 1957, we thought we were witnessing a revolutionary moment in history when the aircraft industry would be changed forever.

Far too late to reverse the fortunes of Mussolini’s Italy