Gavin Mortimer

Delighted to report that my 2004 book, Stirling's Men, is being republished on Feb 6. This is the book for which I interviewed about 75 members of the British, French & Belgian SAS, and several Maquisards. Me, shamelessly jumping on the Rogue Heroes bandwagon?! How dare you.

Incidentally, the SAS padre before Fraser McLuskey was Ronnie Lunt, M.C. Bob Lowson, David Danger & Bill Deakins recalled that after the seizure of Augusta in 1943 he liberated much wine 'for communion'. Lunt had a nickname, which rhymed with his surname. It's a family show...

Remember that phrase that you are only separated from everyone in the world by six degrees? I'm separated from these two men by just 2 degrees, for with A Sqn 1SAS in the Morvan was the now well-known padre Rev Fraser McLuskey MC. Rev McLuskey survived the war & in the late 1950s

Not unique to Britain. The French abandoned the harkis post 1962.