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by Hugh McManners. ( 293 ) £4.99. First published in 1984, and republished twice since then, Falklands Commando was one of the first eye-witness accounts of combat operations during the Falklands War, and indeed one of the first books on Special Forces missions. Captain Hugh McManners went in on the first British Special Forces combat mission ...
Hugh McManners founded a neuroscience research group at the University of Oxford ( The Scars of War Foundation) to address these issues, and find ways of diagnosing and treating soldiers who become clinically affected – as so many do. As the British Army changes from its previous Afghanistan counter-terrorist focus, the hard, brutal lessons ...
Hugh is the Director of the Scars of War Foundation at The Queen's College, University of Oxford. Headed by Co-Director Prof Morten Kringelbach, the foundation uses neuroscience to address the neurocognitive problems created by conflict and natural disasters. Hugh is a consultant at the University of Oxford's Department of Psychiatry.
1 de jan. de 2002 · "Falklands Commando" is Captain Hugh McManners' well-written memoire of his service as a commando forward observer with the British Army in the short, fiercely contested 1982 war with Argentina over the remote Falkland Islands. The sudden Argentine invasion of the Falklands took Britain by surprise.
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Hugh McManners passed the Commando Course in 1972, co-produced a television documentary about it in 1992, then offered guidance from the sidelines when his son Will passed the course in 2014. So reading this book is as close to actually doing the course as it's possible to get without ending up with blisters.
Special Forces selection and training is designed to test personal motivation to the point where actual operations present challenges that candidates have already overcome. There’s no point in suffering doubts at 0300 hours, in the silence after a helicopter has dropped you off 200 miles behind enemy lines.
Hugh McManners knows from personal experience the MoD and Whitehall environment in which he traces the often unbelievable development of the Falklands War. Much of what Hugh describes really did happen, with several of the major and most shocking incidents being fictional extrapolations of actual but so-far unreported events.
