![]() ![]() Unlike the actual SAS, the BBC has been very keen to reveal their identities, considering just who they’ve pulled in. The BBC says in its synopsis: “Convinced that traditional commando units don’t work, Stirling creates a radical plan that flies in the face of all accepted rules of modern warfare.More rebels than soldiers, Stirling’s team are every bit as complicated, flawed and reckless as they are astonishingly brave and heroic.” Sounds like good telly. Seventy-five years later, the Special Air Service finally revealed some of their many secrets and incredible stories of how they came to be, told through reports, memos, maps, photos and letters, all pieced together by the historian author. Winston Churchill was initially against the idea, but then granted his permission, so Stirling began to recruit men for his mysterious military organisation. In the book, Macintyre tells the true story of an eccentric officer, David Stirling, who while at war in 1941 in the Western Desert, came up with the idea of a small undercover unit of the toughest and brightest soldiers currently serving in the Army, to be deployed to lethal effect in war and peacetime. ![]() SAS: Rogue Heroes has been adapted for the small screen by Knight, and originates from Ben Macintyre’s best-selling book, the slightly more of a mouthful Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War. ![]()
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