
SAS Rogue Heroes: Paddy Mayne with Ben Macintyre
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Bradley Maine and Stirling
Blair Maine was an amateur boxing champion, or certainly medalist. The South Africans said they'd almost never met a man with his sort of visceral rage on the pitch. I think he would have lasted today about five minutes before the red card would have come out. He distinguished himself in commando operations on the Littani River and won his first DSO there. And then fought initially the Vichy French in the Middle East.
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