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Macintyre breathes new life into memorable stories of courage and faith told from within the walls of Colditz Castle.
Willie admires the contestants on TV's "SAS: Who Dares Wins" but not as much as the man who founded the SAS in the first place...
Allied prisoners tried tunnels, human catapults and even a glider in their attempts to escape from Colditz, the infamous Nazi-run prisoner-of-war camp in the Second World War. Historian Ben Macintyre explores some of those incredible tales in his new book.
David Stirling, in full Sir David Stirling, original name Archibald David Stirling, (born November 15, 1915, Stirlingshire? [now in Stirling], Scotland—died November 4, 1990, London, England), British army officer who founded and led the elite British Special Air Service (SAS) regiment during World War II. The son of a brigadier general, Stirling attended Trinity College, Cambridge, for a year; in 1939 he joined the Scots Guard Supplementary Reserve of Officers and the next year the commando Brigade of Guards in the Middle East. In Egypt he persuaded his superiors to let him form a unit to ...