 It prompted questions in Parliament about the events of the mutiny when it was first published, which led to the discovery that all the records of the Étaples Board of Enquiry had long since been destroyed.A BBC1 television series, also entitled "The Monocled Mutineer", was adapted from the book, and caused some controversy at the time of its first transmission in 1986, being used by the press to attack the BBC for left-wing bias.Some advertising material issued to promote the series inadvisedly claimed that it was a "true-life story".