Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982

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I am thoroughly fascinated by the SAS. I don't know why, I just am. I do not come from a military family nor am I closely linked to anyone serving, but I am fascinated by the rhetoric, psychology and machismo that seems to prevail in this world, particularly the Special Forces. I'd recommend this book for anyone interested in the SAS and the psychology behind what it takes to be the thinking soldier.

Billingham MBE - Ex SAS Leader | Presenter | Author Billy Billingham MBE - Ex SAS Leader | Presenter | Author

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. Magisterial ... If anyone wants to know what has been happening to Britain since the 1950s, it is difficult to imagine a more informative, or better-humoured guide ... a Thucydidean coolness, balance and wisdom that is superb.' - AN Wilson, The Times 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. A key question is: was the change engineered by Thatcher, or did she ride a wave of inevitable economic and social progress, contributing primarily her trademark grit and determination (hence the moniker 'the Iron Lady', who is 'not for turning' even when further toleration of the social burden of change seems inhumane to many).

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. 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. 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. SAS Who dares wins" offers a lot of ready-to-use advises, simple adjustments that the reader could implent without and particolare effort.

Who Dares Wins: The sequel to BORN FEARLESS, the Sunday Times Who Dares Wins: The sequel to BORN FEARLESS, the Sunday Times

Brilliantly entertaining & informative history of 1970s and early 80s Britain. I now undersatnd why my parents thought Tony Benn was dangerous, and Michael Foot unsuitable for PM. I never really knew who Roy Strong was. Sandbrook made Margaret Thatcher (whom my parents consistently supported & who I never could) a *more* sympathetic character. As an aside, it is remarkable to read in Who Dares Wins of the intense socialism fostered by the trades union activists of the period. It might beggar belief that people could countenance such economically fruitless ideas when in their own time the socialism enforced in Eastern Europe was demonstrating convincingly that central planning and despotic government results inevitably in relatively miserable living standards. It seems that socialist ideas are virulent and repeatedly find receptive hosts.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. In terms of discussing the politics, I find Sandbrook - in contrast to many other authors - to be quite brilliant. It can be extremely difficult to follow politics in one's own country, let alone another, and even though I have been reading THE ECONOMIST for a quarter century, I still struggle with mastering all of the names and all of the scandals and other ins and outs. But just as a good ensemble movie makes each character distinct, so too does Sandbrook really paint the characters so well that they can be distinguished from each other. (However, I also used Google Images to help me keep people distinct, as I need to match faces to names as I am awful with the latter). 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. 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 Bought at a discount bookshop whilst on holiday last year and a bit of a hidden gem. Although others have pointed out that you might get this advice from other books on management and leadership, I doubt whether those books were written by authors who had to put these ideas into action in the most perilous of circumstances.