Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War

by Ben Macintyre

Jellicoe’s SBS, 250-strong, moved to Haifa and began training for operations in the Aegean. The 2SAS, meanwhile, the new sister regiment formed under David Stirling’s brother Bill, would continue training in northern Algeria before deployment in the Mediterranean and then in occupied Europe.