![]() ![]() ![]() The latter (played by Jack O’Connell) was first seen getting the better of three military policemen who had attempted to string him up in his cell. His fellow “beasts” were Jock Lewes and Ulsterman Paddy Mayne. Perhaps the least plausible line in the opening episode, but it allowed Knight to relay his overriding theme: that men who would be beyond the pale in peacetime might have the right stuff for no-holds-barred warfare. “In war, we are allowed to be the beasts we are,” he told the Pom-bashers. Stirling ( Sex Education’s Connor Swindells) was kicking his heels in Cairo, getting sozzled and smooth-talking himself out of bar fights with Australian soldiers. ![]() We were introduced to David Stirling, an angry and arrogant brigadier-general’s son and Commando officer frustrated by military regulations and the unimaginative approach of the high command. The year was 1941 and the Second World War North African campaign was going disastrously for the Allies, with the Libyan port of Tobruk besieged by the Germans, and Egypt and the Suez Canal in danger of being overrun. ![]()
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