Historian Damien Lewis’s SAS Daggers Drawn follows ‘The Originals’ through France and Germany to the war’s end, from D-Day ...

Legendary SAS commander Lt- Colonel Blair “Paddy” Mayne — portrayed by Jack O’Connell in BBC’s World War Two blockbuster SAS Rogue Heroes — was incandescent with rage when he learned ...

Lewis said: “What it boils down to is two things: First, Paddy Mayne was not public school and he wasn’t English. "He wasn’t from the right establishment background. “Secondly, the SAS was ...