Veterans break cover to promote diary of SAS

CLOSE friends of Britain’s most secretive regiment will break cover in Leeds this week to help promote a book which tells the story of its foundation.

By The Newsroom

Published 7th Nov 2011, 08:53 BST

The SAS War Diary was put together by one of its own soldiers after the first SAS unit, founded by David Stirling, was disbanded in 1945. The soldier then put the book into storage until shortly before his death, when it was donated to the SAS Regimental Association.

Now copies have been made available, bound in leather and weighing 25lb (11kg) and priced at £975. The book includes formerly top-secret orders, reports and photos, and publisher Martin Morgan calls it “one of the most astonishing manuscripts to emerge from the Second World War”.

Tickets are now on sale, at £5, for a launch event at the Royal Armouries in Leeds from 7pm on Thursday, which will raise money for the regimental association. Call James Walker on 0113 220 1988 or go to www.tinyurl.com/c8t8u54/