I have been watching this show. I don't know about the historical accuracy beyond the character names (I have ordered the book it's based on from Amazon). But it is pretty good (even if the strong accents sometimes make it hard to understand).
Posted on 12/15/2022 3:12:49 PM PST by Rummyfan
When Steve Knight’s Peaky Blinders, the six-season series about a Birmingham gang in the interwar period and their rise to power, fans were left with a hole in their heart and a question in their mind:
What now?
Turns out there was no need for concern, as Knight already had another series in mind. Leaving the cold streets of Birmingham and the rainy English weather behind, the screenwriter’s next series takes place in the vast emptiness of the North African desert under the scorching sun.
Rogue Heroes is the supposed real story of how the British Army’s real-life special forces branch, the SAS (Special Air Service), was first created during the Second World War.
Our story picks up during the North African campaign. German General Erwin Rommel dominates the battlefield, marching through the desert and setting his aims at a most prized landmark. When it came to strategic importance, the Suez Canal was the ultimate prize, as the side that controlled it controlled access to the Mediterranean. The British forces are on the run, desperately trying to hang on to Cairo, while Rommel is banging on their door.
A major contributing factor to the retreat was the British army’s adherence to rigid military structure and petty bureaucracy.
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I have been watching this show. I don't know about the historical accuracy beyond the character names (I have ordered the book it's based on from Amazon). But it is pretty good (even if the strong accents sometimes make it hard to understand).
James Cameron will not approve of this...
FJC and his stupid Pandora movies.....
LOL.
Did you see Peaky Blinders? Any good?
Spoiler Alert.... It’s only six episodes and Sunday is the final one. In real life Stirling was captured by the Germans in 1943 so i suppose that will be the season stopping point.
Have not watched Peaky Blinders yet.
Also-
The Rat Patrol is an American action and adventure television series that aired on ABC between 1966 and 1968. The show follows the exploits of four Allied soldiers — three Americans and one British — who are part of a long-range desert patrol group in the North African campaign during World War II. Their mission: “to attack, harass and wreak havoc on Field Marshal Rommel’s vaunted Afrika Korps”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rat_Patrol
And this-
The Desert Rats is a 1953 American black-and-white war film from 20th Century Fox, produced by Robert L. Jacks, directed by Robert Wise, that stars Richard Burton, James Mason, and Robert Newton. The film’s storyline concerns the Siege of Tobruk in North Africa during World War II.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Desert_Rats_(film)
The vehicle on the left in the picture looks very like the jeeps we drove in Korea.
Testosterone builds, maintains and defends this world.
First two were good. Can’t speak to Seasons 3 to 6.
Thank you.
Amen.
The book is unique in the fact that the author was allowed into the SAS archives .It is an outstanding read and reading it once is not enough. MacIntyre got it right, it’s a book about courage.
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