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3 Episodes 2017 - 2017
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.
Episode 2
58 mins
Ben Macintyre examines how continued success for the Special Air Service could only be achieved by undertaking ever more dangerous and ambitious missions.

Episode 3
58 mins
Ben Macintyre concludes his history of the formation of the SAS. In 1943, the Service left the deserts of North Africa for mainland Europe and entered a darker and more complex theatre of war.