Lewes ( Game of Thrones’ Alfie Allen) was meanwhile playing out that inspirational commanding officer thing of blithely remaining standing exposed during an enemy attack.ĭirector Tom Shankland handled the battle scenes with panache and made the most of the desert scenery (courtesy of Morocco). The latter (played by Jack O’Connell) was first seen getting the better of three military policemen who had attempted to string him up in his cell. His fellow “beasts” were Jock Lewes and Ulsterman Paddy Mayne. Perhaps the least plausible line in the opening episode, but it allowed Knight to relay his overriding theme: that men who would be beyond the pale in peacetime might have the right stuff for no-holds-barred warfare. “In war, we are allowed to be the beasts we are,” he told the Pom-bashers. Stirling ( Sex Education’s Connor Swindells) was kicking his heels in Cairo, getting sozzled and smooth-talking himself out of bar fights with Australian soldiers. We were introduced to David Stirling, an angry and arrogant brigadier-general’s son and Commando officer frustrated by military regulations and the unimaginative approach of the high command. 33.The year was 1941 and the Second World War North African campaign was going disastrously for the Allies, with the Libyan port of Tobruk besieged by the Germans, and Egypt and the Suez Canal in danger of being overrun.
It is a story about the meaning of courage.
The result is an exhilarating tale of fearlessness and heroism, recklessness and tragedy of extraordinary men who were willing to take monumental risks. 9780241186862 SAS 33.5000 NZD InStock /shop/books /shop/books/non-fiction/history /shop/books/non-fiction /shop/books/non-fiction/history/military-history 'Impeccably researched, superbly told - by far the best book on the SAS in World War II' - Antony Beevor It has opened its secret archives for the first time, granting historian Ben Macintyre full access to a treasure trove of unseen reports, memos, diaries, letters, maps and photographs, as well as free rein to interview surviving Originals and those who knew them. Now, the SAS has finally decided to tell its astonishing story. 'Impeccably researched, superbly told - by far the best book on the SAS in World War II' - Antony Beevor So began the most celebrated and mysterious military organisation in the world- the SAS. In the summer of 1941, at the height of the war in the Western Desert, a bored and eccentric young officer, David Stirling, came up with a plan that was radical and entirely against the rules- a small undercover unit that would inflict mayhem behind enemy lines.
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