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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First and foremost, I would like to thank all those veterans of the Special Air Service who shared with me their memories of Paddy Mayne, David Stirling and Mike Calvert. Such men are thin on the ground now and their memories are thus more precious than ever. So thank you to Albert Youngman, Mike Sadler, Bob Lowson and Jimmy Storie.
The staff at the Churchill Archives in Cambridge were most helpful in providing me with access to the formidable collection of papers in the Ralph Bagnold collection, as was Simon Offord and his team at the Documents and Sound Department of the Imperial War Museum. Similarly, thank you to the National Archives at Kew and the National Army Museum.
Cristiano D’Adamo kindly let me quote from an interview with Emilio Bianchi conducted by Andrea Piccinotti in the 1990s and which is available to see at http://www.regiamarina.net. Similarly thank you Cy Stapleton and Dr Colin Heaton for permission to quote from interviews Dr Heaten conducted with Hans-Dietrich Hossfelder in 1985 and 1994.
Emily Holmes and Kate Moore at Osprey were their customary efficient selves in the editing of the book and in securing an array of excellent photos.
I would also like to thank the following publishers for their kind permission to quote from the books mentioned: New English Library (Anders Lassen of the SAS by Mike Langley); Warner (David Stirling by Alan Hoe); Weidenfeld and Nicolson, (Orde Wingate by Trevor Royle); Pan (One of the Originals by Johnny Cooper); Greenhill (Born of the Desert by Malcolm Pleydell and Skorzeny’s Special Missions by Otto Skorzeny); Sutton (Payne Mayne by Hamish Ross); Stackpole (Jump Into Hell by Franz Kurowski); Caliber (American Commando by John Wukovits); Eagle Books (We Jumped to Fight by Edson Raff); Corgi (The Devil’s Brigade by Robert Aldeman and George Watson); WDL (Return to Crete by Baron von der Heydte); Naval Institute Press (Sea Devils by J Valerio Borghese); The Overlook Press (The Marauders by Charlton Ogburn). I have tried to contact all copyright holders of material quoted. If I have overlooked any sources I apologise and if the copyright holder concerned would contact me I would happily acknowledge their generosity in future editions of The Daring Dozen.
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