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Journalist and author Ben Macintyre uses the archives of the SAS to examine the history of the famed British Army special forces unit. He combines documents, unseen footage and interviews to tell its story.
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Episode 1
58 mins
Ben Macintyre raids the SAS archives to tell of the formation of the unit in the heat of the North African desert in 1941 when an eccentric young British Army officer had a vision for a new kind of war.