Although MacIntyre has researched just about everything to do with special forces, he makes it clear from the start that the book is for the general reader and explains what he’s left out and why. I’ll say straight away that this is a brilliant book. Reading about spies, you know that their activities lead to deaths but it all happens offstage as it were here, the deaths are all too real and make painful reading. I found myself in different territory with his book about the SAS.

He continued: “We might break away and do Colditz as well - Green meets Stirling.”Ĭaptain Julius Morris Green was a Scottish prisoner of war who worked as a spy for MI9 during his time at Colditz Castle.Spying is a dirty game, yet I’m fascinated by spy stories, whether fictional or the factual ones by Ben MacIntyre, all of which I’ve enjoyed. The storyline may also include elements of another of Macintyre's books, Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle, about the prisoner-of-war camp in which David Stirling was detained. “We're gonna to take it to after the end of the Second World War and then see what happens, because the story just keeps it going… and it just gets more and more incredible.” “We're gonna go another three ,” he said. He told LadBible that he has plans for at least three more seasons, taking viewers up to and beyond the length of its source material - Ben Macintyre’s book SAS Rogue Heroes. SAS Rogue Heroes was billed as a mini-series, but it turns out creator Knight - who penned six seasons of Peaky Blinders - has plans for many more seasons of the drama. 'Series two will take the SAS into mainland Europe and will take our heroes to the limits of their endurance.”

Steven Knight, SAS Rogue Heroes’ creator, writer, and executive producer, says: “After the roaring success of Rogue Heroes I’m delighted to be embarking on the next chapter of the story. Yes! It was confirmed on Sunday 4 November - following the SAS Rogue Heroes finale on BBC One - that it will be returning for season 2.įollowing weeks of speculation about whether fans would get to see another series, it was announced via a specially inserted ‘TO BE CONTINUED’ end caption, as the screen froze on Paddy Mayne (Jack O’Connell) - now in charge - and the credits rolled.

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