
It’s 1941. In the middle of a Libyan desert, a British convoy is making its way to relieve the besieged city of Tobruk. The cars have exactly enough fuel to get them the 500 miles to their destination … except due to an administrative error from the Frenchman in charge, they actually only have enough for 500 kilometres.
Welcome to SAS Rogue Heroes, a TV show which seems almost as obsessed about slagging off the people in charge (very current of them) as it does about the wartime story it is telling.