SAS – Rogue Warriors episode 3: The remarkable story behind the fighting force. Stirling is locked away in Hitler’s most secure prison and leadership of the SAS passes to Paddy Mayne.     Stirling is locked away in Hitler’s most secure prison – Colditz. Leadership of the SAS passes to Paddy Mayne, a man who has built his reputation on the battlefield as a warrior of the first rank, but has no interest in charming high command. In 1943, the SAS leaves the desert for Europe to enter a darker and far more complex theatre of war, led by a […]

SAS – Rogue Warriors episode 2: With the tragic loss of Jock Lewes, Stirling’s second in command is now the newly promoted Captain Paddy Mayne – an officer as unpredictable and dangerous as the new phase of war that is about to begin.     Unknown to David Stirling, the Germans are training special units to track, intercept and kill the marauding SAS. The hunters soon become the hunted. The SAS has to adapt if it is going to survive. Disaster strikes when Stirling is captured by the Germans. As the SAS prepare to fight Hitler in Europe, they are

SAS – Rogue Warriors episode 1: The remarkable story behind an extraordinary fighting force. Episode one tells the story of the founding of the SAS in the heat of the north African desert in 1941.     The Special Air Service is the world’s most famous combat unit, with the motto Who Dares Wins, but the story of how it came into existence has been, until now, a closely guarded secret. For the first time, the SAS has agreed to open up its archive and allow Ben Macintyre to reveal the true story of their formation during the darkest days