Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982

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Those same hardliners will have even more difficulty with what is to follow. Because what Sandbrook goes on to demonstrate is that much of what is now ascribed to Margaret Thatcher was either already in train before she became its public face (council house sales) or was less under her control than the left-leaning revisionists would have us believe (industrial decline). For those on the right who worship her memory, meanwhile, it is telling that Thatcher was - at least in these early years - less effective than they would like to believe. His second book Life Under Fire: How to Build Inner Strength and Thrive Under Pressure [9] was released October 15, 2020. Chris Ryan was born in 1961 in a village near Newcastle. In 1984 he joined the SAS. During his ten years in the Regiment, he was involved in overt and covert operations and was also Sniper team commander of the anti-terrorist team.

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

And it is worth reading. Sandbrook writes with great style and wit about a crucial period in Briain's post-war history that older readers will remember well. He covers most of the significant developments in all walks of life as he did in his previous books. This book takes situations all of us will experience during our lives and presents tactical lessons drawn from SAS training and battlefield experience. Its four authors - stars of the hit Channel 4 show Who Dares Wins - how their finely honed understanding of how to handle extreme challenges can be applied in any environment. Their advice on negotiation, people management, self-motivation and resilience, among other things, can transform your performance in a whole range of from buying a house, nailing a job interview, and the experience of dealing with rejection, to maintaining a diet, or managing that pushy colleague at work. Who Dares Wins is the fifth book in my series about Britain since the war, and covers the shortest period. I spent more time on this one than any of the others, partly because of the sheer wealth of material, but also because I wanted to get it right. The acclaimed historian of modern Britain, Dominic Sandbrook, tells the story of the early 1980s: the most dramatic, colourful and controversial years in our recent history.

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Outside of his military career, some of Fox's bigger adventures include rowing across the Atlantic Ocean from Lagos, Portugal to Macuro, Venezuela in 2016 with four of his friends including Oliver Bailey. Known as Team Essence, their expedition [12] took the crew 50 days over 3,308 nautical miles, and landed them a record for becoming the first team to row unsupported, crossing the Atlantic Ocean from east to west - from mainland Europe to South America, non-stop from mainland to mainland. Across the journey, Team Essence also raised money for the NSPCC. This all-action, high-octane thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author Chris Ryan is perfect for fans of Andy McNab, Lee Child, Clive Cussler and Stephen Leather. Guaranteed to keep you hooked and get your pulse-racing... Middleton, Anthony; Fox, Jason; Ollerton, Matthew; Maclachlan, Colin (15 February 2016). Leadership Secrets from the Special Forces: SAS: Who Dares Wins. Headline. ISBN 9781472240729– via Google Books. Chris Ryan was born near Newcastle in 1961. He joined the SAS in 1984 and was a member for ten years. During the Gulf War, Chris was the only member of an eight-man team to escape from Iraq, of which three colleagues were killed and four captured. It was the longest escape and evasion in the history of the SAS. For his last two years he was selecting and training potential recruits for the SAS. I do need to reread some of the economic bits again as it's not my strongest suite and I struggle to hold that sort of information in my head.

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Not only they excelled as soldiers, they now stand out in every possible environment, as you never know where the next challenge could come from. 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.The book focuses on the history of early 1980s Britain. It is a comprehensive overview of the period, culminating with the Falklands War. It is always tempting (if pointless) to speculate about the ‘What if?’ moments of history. If Callaghan had gone to the country in autumn 1978, as most of the pundits anticipated, would he have won? If so, the whole course of British political history would have been completely different. Mrs Thatcher would almost certainly have been deposed as Conservative leader, perhaps to be replaced by a rival of more moderate views. 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. Former SAS man Ryan knows every inch of his former regiment and uses the knowledge to excellent effect - you're left feeling you know what it's like to wear the famous winged dagger cap badge' -- Daily Mail

Who Dares Wins - Dominic Sandbrook

The two epigraphs heading the book suggest who the real actors of history may be: the first is Fielding's remark in Tom Jones, that 'many little circumstances are omitted by injudicious historians ... the great wheels are set in motion by those which are very minute'; the second is Tolstoy's comment in War and Peace that 'most of the people paid no attention to the general progress of events but were guided by their private interests, and they were the very people whose activities at that period were most useful.' Events, as ever, were as much a product of outside forces - the manner in which North Sea oil was actually a problem for our economy more than a bonanza that was squandered is particularly revealing - and the new government was struggling to change the direction of our economy in the face of serious turbulence. Sandbrook frequently asks whether things could have been different, and whilst sometimes in hindsight it seems they could (if only slightly), it is clear that without that hindsight, such outcomes were unlikely in the extreme.

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Excellent analysis of the period, easy and enjoyable to read. Uses a huge range of sources, including Adrian Mole, Dear Bill, and TV of the time, as well as the official papers and academic books you would expect. So although it is weighty, comprehensive, and academically rigorous, it is also engaging, humorous, and absolutely fascinating. Very informative read, Very well written and easy to absorb as each chapter goes over what you've just took in making it easier to understand and remember. 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. It would be impossible to write a book such as Dominic Sandbrook's Who Dares Wins:Britain 1979-1982 without devoting a sizeable chunk of the text to the woman dubbed The Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher, as well as those who were in her political sphere. A woman who, although pilloried for her part in dismantling the heavy industry of the UK, felt a heavy weight of responsibility upon her shoulders each day she spent in office. 'Pilloried' is no understatement; in many former industrial centres...basically, anywhere that isn't 'down south', she is roundly condemned for having been single-handedly responsible for utterly shattering working class communities. Shipbuilding, mining, steel, textiles and car-manufacturing among many others, were lost forever. But more significantly, areas within the towns and cities which they served were left as heartless wastelands of urban decay and deprivation. In such places, the mere inkling that somebody supports Thatchers viewpoints, or sees any good in the woman whatsoever, is to this day, still likely to attract a measure of emotionally charged aggression. Just how one single politician (aside from truly despotic dictators) can attract such animosity, on such a wide scale, has always intrigued me. It was with exactly this sense of intrigue that I approached Sandbrook's fifth instalment of a series, which charts the history of postwar Great Britain. 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.