Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982

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This book is an interesting read. Peppered with personal military experience, this book is narrated by Ant, Ollie, Foxy and Colin most well known for Channel 4's SAS: Who Dares Wins television series. It offers some useful insights into how 'Elite' techniques can be utilised on Civvy Street: how to successfully self-motivate or how to deal with stress/emotion during job interviews for example. So, once you come to terms with the fact that Sandbrook's style is to cover as many topics as possible, with an average of maybe one in five being actually engaging, there is little choice other than to plough on to the bitter end. Occasionally, there is the chance of stumbling across something that holds your interest. The main highlights are the authors humanising approach to Thatcher. After reading this, I don't think I'll ever see her as quite the fire-breathing old bitch that many seem to believe she was. She was more than that. A woman who made some incredibly tough decisions as PM, who seemed somewhat disengaged from the person on the street whilst also being able to express heartfelt emotion now and again. Somebody who led the country through some of it's toughest times in a generation and ultimately, someone with principles. Fox, with his co-star of SAS: Who Dares Wins, Ollie Ollerton, co-founded a corporate team building, training and events company. In 2019, Fox and Ollerton went on to launch the fitness and wellbeing app Battle Ready 360 – which focuses on personalised plans for individuals looking to balance mind, body and nutrition. All Or Nothing: the explosive new action thriller from bestselling author and SAS: Who Dares Wins star (Alex Abbott) Immaculately well-researched, breathtakingly broad and beautifully written ... Sandbrook leaves the reader impatient for the next volume.' - Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph

Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982 by Dominic Sandbrook

Empat orang bekas pasukan khas British AS berentap menghasilkan sebuah buku motivasi berpandukan ( pengalaman ketika operasi dan latihan. Special Forces memerlukan daya fokus, kawalan emosi, disipilin yang tinggi. Semua ini disatukan dalam "Leadership". Another marathon read from Mr Sandbrook and another thoroughly enjoyable one. His usual weaving together of strands of all kinds is present and he comes as close as is probably possible to presenting a balanced view of the early Margaret Thatcher years.The Falklands War proved to be the pivotal moment in Margaret Thatcher’s first term as Prime Minister. Indeed, if Argentina had not invaded the Falkland Islands, it is unlikely that she would have secured even a second term, far less a third. The British economy plummeted during her first years as Prime Minister, and unemployment soared, extending beyond three million. Of course, this was particularly ironic given the success of the Conservatives’ election campaign, a key element of which had been billboards showing huge queues outside a Job Centre with the slogan, ‘Labour isn’t working’. Even senior figures within her own party was starting to challenge her approach. During the opening years of her premiership, Britain saw vicious riots spreading throughout the country, in places as far apart as Brixton, Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham and Cardiff. Sandbrook writes thorough and expansive histories of the tenures of PMs since WWII. It appears the Thatcher years are to be spread over at least two volumes. I did feel that this was much too sympathetic to Thatcher in some respects. It's probably realistic to conclude that the end was always nigh for various moribund industries but Sandbrook, whilst elucidating on this, breezily ignored the fact that Thatcher made very little progress in realigning these regions away from heavy industry, prior to deindustrialization. But when Jacob is booted from the Regiment for a moment of madness, he disappears. Not even his family knows where he is, or even if he's still alive. All that is about to change. In 2017, Fox co-authored the book SAS: Who Dares Wins: Leadership Secrets from the Special Forces, [6] with his fellow TV presenters and Special Forces soldiers Anthony Middleton, Matthew "Ollie" Ollerton and Colin Maclachlan. The book triggered an investigation by the British Ministry of Defence for alleged admissions of war crimes by the authors. [7] The test is physical and draws on mental and emotional strength that ultimately reveals the deepest and truest character of the recruits.

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Soooo freaking readable. In places hilarious. Reminded me a little bit of the medieval europe book that I read earlier in the year as most of the chapters are based around a theme such as sport, Ken Livingstone, or the selling of council houses so you end up seeing some of the same events from lots of different perspectives. The transformation of Britain under these social developments seems driven more by structural change than a direct result of the election of Margaret Thatcher. Sandbrook notes that many changes superficially attributed to the Thatcher years were in fact well underway when Thatcher was first elected in 1979. This is certainly true of the Thatcher economic agenda. His portrayal of Mrs Thatcher is partisan to a fault. Opposition voices are dismissed as belonging to weirdos and faint hearts.Don't take my word for it, read it and see what you think. Even-handed and enjoyable ... ranging over the sights, sounds and smells of an era that looks almost quaint 40 years on ... This is the first big contemporary account of an era I can remember living through ... and you may feel a nice balance of piquancy and poignancy in having those years brought to life by the historian's magic wand ... Sandbrook is especially good on sport, not just the headline-grabbers of Botham’s Ashes and the boycotted Moscow Olympics but the quieter revolution of snooker, the first televised sport watched by more women than men." Anthony Quinn, ObserverMidgley, Carol. "The Final Mission: Foxy's War review — Foxy puts his demons to rest"– via www.thetimes.co.uk.

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They were also a time of political upheaval. Thatcher moved away from the postwar Keynesian consensus, tolerating high unemployment as the price of defeating inflation. We also hear about widespread protests against unemployment, which saw the People’s March for Jobs and riots in Brixton and Toxteth. Plus the protest of the Greenham women. Sandbrook goes onto explain about Ken Livingston and the battles between central government and left-wing councils. Not to mention the formation of a new party: the SDP. Political opposition in the UK to cuts in government expenditure, and continuing inflation, led to the 1978/79 Winter of Discontent, with substantial strikes and excessive pay rises to contain industrial unrest.Oversize Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Browne, Dik (illustrator). 1st Edition. An uncreased spine with very light edge wear. No store stamp. The Thatcher program thus was largely in the spirit of the times, and had much in common with policies being implemented in other countries. These policies seem predominantly to be a response to the substantial decline of post war economic orthodoxies made redundant by increased globalization and stronger international competition. The book contains substantial social history, informed by close reading of the major newspapers of the period and the detail of people's experiences of the times as recorded in the Mass Observation Project. Sandbrook also seems to have read the complete trove of Thatcher documents available in the online Thatcher Archive. I thought that this was a really good book - a straightforward guide with plenty of good common sense recommendations. The book begins and ends with accounts of the British military in action. It opens with an account of the Iranian Embassy siege in London in 1980, something those of us alive at the time probably won't forget watching, open mouthed, on television.

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Hovering over Who Dares Wins, I’m afraid, is the old line about those who fail to learn from history being doomed to repeat it. 1979-82 was an era of crises in transport and infrastructure, a Labour party hamstrung by internal strife, a government fronted by the most divisive leader in years, a people bitterly disunited and a nation staring disaster in the face. Remind you of anything? Premiering in Jan 2023, Billy is a DS in this all-new Fox TV series in which household names endure some of the harshest, most gruelling challenges based on the Special Forces selection process. Mrs Thatcher is one of the most divisive figures in British political history, but one who is now generally the subject of rampant vituperation. Having just turned sixteen, I was too young to vote in the 1979 election, but contrary to the revisionist view prevalent today, I remember the feeling almost of euphoria when Mrs Thatcher emerged victorious from that election. This was, it is true, more a feeling that change … any change … had to be welcome. Things had been so relentlessly grim over the preceding seven or eight months that any sort of new start was welcome. Of course, no-one would have believed in May 1979 that the Conservatives would remain in power for the next eighteen years, and, as if to prove Santayana’s adage about the cyclical nature of history, there was the same sense of euphoria or relief when Tony Blair’s New Labour finally ousted them.Exciting action and lots of drama. I also like that Ryan doesn't waste time explaining the abbreviations and acronyms he uses, I always find that ruins the flow a little when authors spoon feed information to the reader. I may not have known what he meant by certain things, but I was free to google it in my own time rather than having it there in the book, taking up space. The Royal Marines Charity". Archived from the original on 30 November 2020 . Retrieved 28 September 2021. Like its predecessors, Who Dares Wins is a rich mixture of political narrative and social reportage. It is scholarly, accessible, well written, witty and incisive. It fizzes with character and anecdote ... Superb. Piers Brendon, The Sunday Times The period of transition was notable also for major disruptive reactions driven by the decimation of the traditional working class by industrial transformation. These changes were ephemeral rather than durable, albeit highly significant for many at the time. They included substantial protest marches by the newly unemployed, increasing racial tensions and riots in the inner cities, the reinvigoration of the CND anti nuclear campaigns, and Northern Ireland hunger strikes and related terrorist bombings.