Rogue Heroes S1

Based on Ben Macintyre’s best-selling book, Rogue Heroes is a dramatised account of how the world’s greatest Special Forces unit, the SAS, was formed under extraordinary circumstances in the darkest days of World War Two.Cairo, 1941. David Stirling - an eccentric young officer is frustrated with the military authorities and their handling of the current war strategy. Convinced that traditional commando units don’t work, a view shared by another young officer, Jock Lewes, the pair create a radical plan that flies in the face of all accepted rules of modern warfare. Stirling fights for permission to recruit soldiers for a small undercover unit. The sweepings of public schools and military prisons, these are men who only need one order. ‘Go. Kill. Return. Go again’. More rebels than soldiers, Stirling’s team are every bit as complicated, flawed and reckless as they are brave and heroic.