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• Commended for British Book Design & Production Awards: Limited Edition and Fine Binding 2012.

Overview

Signed by Major W.M. Sadler MC, MM. Mike Sadler was David Stirling's navigator throughout his desert campaign. In November 1941, in the Western Desert war of North Africa, Mike Sadler was a navigator with the Long Range Desert Group. Two weeks after the first and disastrous SAS operation, in which only 22 men out of 65 made it to the RV with the LRDG, Sadler navigated Paddy Mayne to the Tamet airfield, deep behind enemy lines, where Mayne and his group destroyed 24 enemy aircraft. It was the first successful SAS operation. In the following months, during the period when the LRDG took the SAS to their targets, Sadler navigated one of the patrols involved. When David Stirling got his own jeeps, he poached Sadler from the LRDG. Sadler navigated the SAS on the first nighttime mass jeep raid on the enemy airfield at Sidi Haneish, near Fuka. In January 1943 Sadler was with Stirling when he attempted to outflank the Germans retreating from El Alamein and connect with the British 1st Army in Tunisia. Sadly, it went wrong, and Stirling and the rest were captured. Sadler and two others got away and endured a hundred-mile desert walk to make the connection. After D-Day, Sadler parachuted into the Morvan Mountains in Occupied France, to operate in the Forest of Orleans. He celebrated the liberation of Paris with Paddy Mayne, in Paris. Bound over extra thick boards and with a leather closing flap replicating the one on the original Diary. Limited to 150 copies at GBP1750 each. There are four different signed versions of the War Diary available for collectors. The SAS War Diary is released in a special limited Anniversary Edition to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the birth of the Special Air Service and to raise funds for the welfare work of the Regimental Association. Based on the original Diary held by the Regimental Association, The SAS War Diary is augmented with material from their archive, very little of which has ever been seen before. The SAS War Diary is extremely impressive, measuring some 17 x 12 x 4 inches and weighing over 28lbs. Each copy is bound by hand in full leather over wood composite boards in the style of the original, with three brass posts and finished with a new blocking design featuring the Regimental badge and wings. The individual copies are then numbered and the limitation page is embossed with the seal of the Regimental Association, as are the signature pages on the signed copies. The Diary is produced using traditional materials in the traditional manner and is designed to last for generations

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