Tap the gear icon above to manage new release emails.
Follow Hugh McManners to get new release emails from Audible and Amazon.
Born in Oxford, raised in Australia, trained by the British Army, educated at Oxford University, after 13 years with Commando Forces (out of an 18-year military career), writes books and songs, plays music and lives in central Leicester.
"My happiest times were with the elite 148 Commando Forward Observation Battery where I enjoyed five enjoyable years at Royal Marines Poole. The apogee of my military career was the Falklands War of 1982, in which we fought with the Special Boat Squadron.
"I also really liked Australia, so at the age of 13, it was a nightmare coming back to grey, dismal UK, where sounding like Crocodile Dundee's nightmare nephew, I had to learn Latin from scratch in a class that was already reading Horace (or some such thing that was a great mystery to me).
"But after then attending one of the UK's first comprehensive schools - as a guinea pig in the great 'Leicestershire Plan', there was no choice but to join the Army.
"The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst was a severe culture shock. But after a couple of very happy years in the commando artillery battery "Black Eight", three years at Oxford University reading geography and doing boxing (note the verbs) were both antidote and stimulus to further military adventures.
'At 148 Battery we worked with the SBS, plus I ran the British Army's central American jungle warfare training school. I was an Army Diving Supervisor, and ran our small amphibious ops group, and FO1 - Forward Observation team one.
"But thereafter my military career was an anti-climax: to Staff College Camberley, MoD staff appointments and a rather jolly final few years commanding an artillery gun battery: in Northern Ireland, Thorney Island, and beside a lake with ducks in northern Germany.
"Since then, I've produced television documentaries, spent five interesting years ad the Sunday Time's defence correspondent, whilst writing the sort of books Amazon so efficiently sells under my name on this site.
"I lived in central Oxford as the Director of the neuroscience medical research foundation "The Scars of War". And moved back to the Leicester of my teenage years just before the Covid lockdowns.
More information, blogs and various guides to the Army, survival and other related subjects at www . hughmcmanners .com / books
Read more
Read less
