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, spending five years with 148 (Meiktila) Commando Forward Observation Battery, 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 [1].