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From constructing emergency shelters and testing plants for poison to making a compass and splinting a broken arm this fully-illustrated guide will teach you everything you need to know about staying alive in any environment AUTHOR BIO During his years in the military Hugh McManners served as a paratrooper and combat-survival instructor He is the author of DKs Ultimate Special Forces
About the Author
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 lives in central Oxford, as Director of the neuroscience medical research foundation "The Scars of War".
"My happiest times were with the elite 148 Commando Observation Battery where I enjoyed five very happy 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 a commando unit, 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 Americans jungle warfare training school. I was an Army Diving Supervisor, and ran our small amphibious ops group, and FO1 - Forward Observation team one.
"But everything thereafter was a decline - gently... into 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 live in central Oxford, and have two astonishingly musical sons - one now in the Army, a cavalry captain on the brink of becoming a commando - and as is the plan, joining 148 Battery."
More information, blogs and various guides to the Army, survival and other related subjects maybe found at http://www.hughmcmanners.com/books/falklands-commando/
