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Summary:The first programme, Desert , tells of the SAS's little known exploits in Oman; the site of one the great untold battles, where 400 rebels attacked a fort at Mirbat which was guarded by just nine SAS men.
Description:The definitive history of the Special Air Service. The films shows how Britain's most secretive and glamorous regiment was formed almost by accident by an unlikely group of social misfits who turned the conventional notion of army discipline on its head.