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SAS Rogue Warriors
Episode One
Season 1
Episode 1
The story of the founding of the SAS in the heat of the North African desert in 1941. David Archibald Stirling is an aristocratic dreamer who has a vision for a new kind of war: attacking the enemy where they least expect it - from behind their own lines. Against the odds, Stirling helps the Allies towards victory in the desert but he loses Lieutenant Jock Lewes, his right-hand man.
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SAS leadership passes to Paddy Mayne, a man who has a reputation as a warrior.
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Disaster strikes when Stirling is captured by the Germans.