Hugh McManners
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Hugh McManners is an
author,
television producer and
presenter,
journalist and
musician. He was born into an academic family in Oxford, the son of historian
John McManners FBA, and was brought up in Australia. He was educated at
Sydney Church of England Grammar School – Shore -
Magdalen College School Oxford, and the
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He read Geography at
St Edmund Hall Oxford. Hugh spent 18 years in the
British Army, the majority of his time serving with
3 Commando Brigade. During the
Falklands War, he fought with the
Special Boat Service and worked with the
SAS, and was awarded a "
Mention in Despatches". He spent five years with 148 Commando Observation Unit, as a
commando,
paratrooper, and an army diving supervisor; and ran the British Army’s
jungle warfare training school in
Belize. Hugh then passed the year-long Army Staff College course at Camberley, and survived two tours of duty behind a desk inside the
MoD in London. He has served at
Fort Ord California with the US Army's
2nd Infantry Division (Light), on
counter terrorist duties in
Armagh, Northern Ireland, and with the
United Nations in
Cyprus during the
Turkish invasion of 1976.
Hugh was the Defence Correspondent of London’s Sunday Times newspaper for five years, and has co-produced a list of television documentaries and series on military subjects. He co-presented the BBC2 Bare Necessities survival series. He is the author of many military books including the hard-hitting Scars of War, and several very successful Dorling Kindersley titles, including the Outdoor Training Manual and the Commando Survival Guide. He continues to work as an author and broadcaster, lives in Oxford, and has two very musical sons. Also a musician, he is the singer and guitarist for The BashBand [link].
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