Books by Hugh McManners

Hugh McManners was a captain in148 Commando Forward Observation Battery, serving with the Special Boat Squadron during the Falklands War. Brought up in Australia, he joined the British Army in 1972 and in 1975 was sponsored by them to read geography at Oxford University. He subsequently spent thirteen years with 3 Commando Brigade before attending Staff College, working in the MoD and leaving the army in 1989. After co-producing various television documentary series for the BBC, ITV, Discovery and Channel 4, Hugh spent five years as the Sunday Times' defence correspondent. He was the co-presenter of the popular BBC2 survival series Bare Necessities. Hugh is the author of many military, military history and outdoors books, including Forgotten Voices of the Falklands, The Scars of War, Commando - Winning the Green Beret, Top Guns, Falklands Commando and The Commando Survival Manual. He lives in London, and has a cavalry offi cer son in the Light Dragoons.