It's all in the name of style and will suit some viewers more than others.

The language and costume also take a contemporary twist on the historically accurate which makes the show more Top Gun (yes, there are aviators) than Band of Brothers. SAS Rogue Heroes takes on the same aesthetic but swaps out the growling thump of Royal Blood and The Kills for the heavier thrashing of Skunk Anansie. Indeed, one of the things that helped make Peaky Blinders so popular was its soundtrack that played heavy on blues rock and recurrent use of Nick Cave's 'Red Right Hand'. Despite playing with the truth, the producers of SAS Rogue Heroes have said (via The Telegraph) it's a show 'about men' and that there won't be a contemporary attitude taken toward colourblind casting of non-historical figures, or to the roles of women.Īnachronisms are a staple of Knight's work. The truth was something straight out of an Arnold Schwarzenegger film.Įve has no historical counterpart and is instead a vague amalgamation of real-life figures. Perhaps the most famous example of this in the series comes in one of its later episodes where Stirling and Paddy Mayne, another SAS co-founder and highly regarded boxer and rugby player are dropped behind enemy lines, where they destroy a series of Nazi airstrips and fighter planes. Knight recently said at an event to launch the series that to make the show appear more realistic he had to tone down real-life events 'so many times'. Though not occurring in North Africa as it does in the series, Sadler has said that Stirling, to obtain a table at a Paris bar already in use by some patrons, threw a real hand grenade to clear out the place. Though not in the book (by Damian Lewis) on which the series is based, Mike Sadler, who at the grand old age of 102 is the last living founding member of the SAS, says a far more extreme thing happened in real life (via The Telegraph). Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War Audio CD Unabridged, Octoby Ben Macintyre (Author, Reader) 7,683 ratings Editors' pick Best History See all formats and editions Kindle 14.

Take for example, the scene where Stirling clears out a bar by throwing a dummy grenade onto a snooker table – it's tame compared to the real version. Sex Ed star in new trailer for SAS Rogue Heroes

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