Patrick Baty, 70, thought the greatest adventure of his life would culminate in the fight against the communist insurgency in the Dhofar region of southern Oman in the 1970s. Britain’s elite Special Air Service, the feared SAS, was involved in the covert operation, and the young Baty, then a captain in the 9th/12th Royal Lancers, had already begun learning Arabic and was preparing to emulate Lawrence of Arabia.

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