Chris

[Chris @ChrisW_73]

@VeteransFdn That's debatable!

[Chris @ChrisW_73]

@PhoneyMajor Gold. Look after them Gavin!

[Chris @ChrisW_73]

@PhoneyMajor John Haselden. Now there is a biography i would like to read!

[Chris @ChrisW_73]

@RDPHistory Happy New Year. Any news regarding the huge Falklands book?

[Chris @ChrisW_73]

@blair_mayne I read that book, absolutely fascinating. Apparently he almost married a nazi sympathiser. And then.......

[Chris @ChrisW_73]

@PhoneyMajor Wasn't that Stirlings idea? Weirdo Police, nice one Gavin!

[Chris @ChrisW_73]

@PhoneyMajor Excellent read,thanks Gavin. Thanks too for all the excellent posts throughout the year. For my money you are the no.1 expert all matters ww2 sf. Much better than all that Rogue Heroes paffle! Happy and prosperous 2026 to all.

[Gavin Mortimer @PhoneyMajor]

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Delighted to announce I'm partnering with Osprey to write:
The Real Rogue Heroes: the wartime SAS in their own words.
Drawing on my 25 years of research & scores of veteran interviews, Real Rogue Heroes will go beyond the cliches & caricatures to inside the minds of the men.

[Chris @ChrisW_73]

@PhoneyMajor Excellent, can't wait to read.

[Chris @ChrisW_73]

@PhoneyMajor Proper hardmen. If you're gonna die, die with your boots on! We remember them.

[Chris @ChrisW_73]

@PhoneyMajor The BBC has gone to pot. So glad I cancelled my licence.

[Chris @ChrisW_73]

@PhoneyMajor Great writing Gavin, thank you for sharing.

[Chris @ChrisW_73]

@blair_mayne Much prefer @PhoneyMajor version of events myself. Bill was definitely the more dominant brother.

[Chris @ChrisW_73]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[Chris @ChrisW_73]

@PhoneyMajor Very much so Gavin.Kudos. What sets you apart form other biographers is that you actually interviewed what was left of L Detachment.Very impressive,your books read that way. lm hoping in the near future your work will be optioned for screen instead of SAS auf wiedersehen pet!

[Chris @ChrisW_73]

@PhoneyMajor Just picked up a couple of classics in paperback.
Felt like rereading them again!
Twenty quid on the way to you Gavin, well worth the price! #SAS #sasrogueheroes #blairpaddymayne

[Chris @ChrisW_73]

@PhoneyMajor Spot on. Not in the least bit accurate!

[Chris @ChrisW_73]

@PhoneyMajor Yes, it looks that way. Thanks Gavin.

[Chris @ChrisW_73]

@PhoneyMajor Oh no, not more of this rubbish.
At least we still have the books.
I hope there are more to come Gavin?

[Gavin Mortimer @PhoneyMajor]

"You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers & the truncheons of their police. They are afraid of words & thoughts; words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home – terrify them".

Winston Churchill, Oct 1938, 'The defence of freedom'.

[Gavin Mortimer @PhoneyMajor]

P.S
The SAS Brigade enjoyed their summer of 1945 in Norway.
There was football, there was drinking & there was - how I can put this tactfully - a lot of 'courting'.
Some of the tales the veterans told me...
They made a Club 18-30 holiday sound like a Sunday School outing.