![]() Dominic West as Lieutenant Colonel Wrangel Clarke.The BBC describes SAS Rogue Heroes as “rich with action and set-pieces” adding it is the “exhilarating story of renegade men taking monumental risks in extraordinary circumstances.” Who stars in the drama? He says of the drama: “This is a war story like no other, told in a way that is at once inspired by the facts and true to the spirit of this legendary brigade of misfits and adventurers.” The show’s creator Steven Knight is also the brain behind the hit show Peaky Blinders. The six-part BBC One drama is based on Ben Macintyre’s book of the same name, which is an authorised written history of the SAS. ![]() The 10 best TV shows to watch this week, from Star Wars: Ahsoka to the women's World Cup final 18 August, 2023 If you like Riverdale, you'll love the Harlan Coban fever dream Shelter 18 August, 2023 Parkinson's most memorable interviews - from 'that bloody bird' to Helen Mirren's 'equipment' 17 August, 2023 What can we expect from SAS Rogue Heroes? The title was created in July 1929 by King George V and the family seat is Bix Hall, near Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire. The phrase is also the motto of Baron Alvingham of Woodfold in the County Palatine of Lancaster. It is also said to have been used in the 18th century in German in Carl Friedrich Cramer’s Klopstock (In Fragmenten aus Briefen von Tellow an Elisa), which was published in 1777. Other countries have their equivalent of the motto including Germany: “Wer wagt, gewinnt”, the French is “Qui ose gagne” and the Italian is “Chi osa vince”. They were translated into English and published in 2014 under the title, Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange. It is said to have appeared in a medieval Arabic book of fairytales. The phrase “Who Dares Wins” goes back much further than the SAS. However, according to Leroy Thompson’s 1994 book S AS: Great Britain’s Elite Special Air Service, among the SAS themselves, it is occasionally corrupted to “Who cares who wins?” The motto ‘Who Dares Wins’ summed up Stirling’s original SAS concept.” The Winged Dagger SAS badge, at the Sir David Stirling Memorial site in Scotland (Photo: Wayne Hutchinson/Farm Images/Universal Images Group/Getty) “The cap badge was originally designed as a flaming ‘sword of Damocles’ but ended up as a winged dagger. The Imperial War Museum, describing a cloth cap badge with the SAS motto and insignia, which is in its collection, states: “In an effort to consolidate the identity of his new unit, Colonel Stirling privately arranged for this insignia to be made up by a Cairo tailor.
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