Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982

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SAS Who dares wins" offers a lot of ready-to-use advises, simple adjustments that the reader could implent without and particolare effort. I forgot some parts but I still remember one tragic moment done by Jacob to a character that I really liked. 😢 (Mac) Genuinely insightful and fantastic to listen to throughout. One glaring admission though, and I think this speaks volumes, is that he never considered religion or the church, which highlights its irrelevance even though religion has hardly faded away from significance. 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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I should say straight away that I am a huge fan of Dominic Sandbrook, and feel that this is his finest book yet, although I recognise that that might simply reflect my greater familiarity with, and recollection of, the events about which he writes. Where he excels is in drawing together, without any semblance of artifice, so many different strands of life. He gives a detailed account of the political issues dominating day to day life, but also sheds light on prevailing trends in entertainment, literature and music, as well as changing aspects to domestic life. Postwar Britain suffered a long period of decline as they recovered from that tremendous struggle. This period is really the beginning of the turn around. I remember those years well, but this book does a great job of covering it from a British perspective. I don’t think the author is a “Thatcherite” but he covers her fairly. Fox is one of the original presenters and directing staff on SAS: Who Dares Wins, a reality television programme where contestants experience a gruelling training course loosely based on a condensed version of the special forces selection process. Fox stars alongside former special forces soldiers Ant Middleton, Matthew ‘Ollie’ Ollerton, Mark ‘Billy’ Billingham, and Jay Morton. The programme first broadcast in 2015 is produced by Channel 4, and aired its fifth season in February 2020. In 2019, the first season of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins aired which also stars Fox.Even-handed and enjoyable ... ranging over the sights, sounds and smells of an era that looks almost quaint 40 years on ... This is the first big contemporary account of an era I can remember living through ... and you may feel a nice balance of piquancy and poignancy in having those years brought to life by the historian's magic wand ... Sandbrook is especially good on sport, not just the headline-grabbers of Botham’s Ashes and the boycotted Moscow Olympics but the quieter revolution of snooker, the first televised sport watched by more women than men." Anthony Quinn, Observer Immaculately well-researched, breathtakingly broad and beautifully written ... Sandbrook leaves the reader impatient for the next volume.' - Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph All-action Maggie was the British statesman who grasped the garment of an age when Britons had enough of the old ways. She was the avatar of the populist nationalism that still dominates British politics and foreign policy. That Britons dare to win. That they stand, often alone, in the world against tyranny. That Europeans are 'namby-pambies' who can be handbagged into submission. All those are uniquely Thatcherite views. So next time the Britons make you scratch your head, blame Thatcher! RIP her.

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So Dominic Sandbrook's multi-volume opus reaches the 1980s, and with the beginning of the Thatcher era, he enters a period where history itself becomes divisive. So many of the current crop of left-wing journalists and politicians found their voices as being more anti-Thatcher than pro anything else that Sandbrook finds himself, before the narrative even starts, having to justify his very terms of reference. How does one refer to the first female prime minister in British history? Certainly not as Margaret or Mrs T, but the usual shorthand of referring simply by surname - as with everyone from Walpole to Callaghan - is so politically charged, he feels it necessary to step away from the convention and justify his position in so doing. It is safe to say that many hardliners will bristle even at that. Mrs Thatcher is one of the most divisive figures in British political history, but one who is now generally the subject of rampant vituperation. Having just turned sixteen, I was too young to vote in the 1979 election, but contrary to the revisionist view prevalent today, I remember the feeling almost of euphoria when Mrs Thatcher emerged victorious from that election. This was, it is true, more a feeling that change … any change … had to be welcome. Things had been so relentlessly grim over the preceding seven or eight months that any sort of new start was welcome. Of course, no-one would have believed in May 1979 that the Conservatives would remain in power for the next eighteen years, and, as if to prove Santayana’s adage about the cyclical nature of history, there was the same sense of euphoria or relief when Tony Blair’s New Labour finally ousted them. I do not encourage violence. But if you need a tactical blunt-force instrument, this whopper of a book will come in handy. Hard to believe that it covers only four years or that so much, written in so many words, has no dull moments. 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.I am not sure if it was 2010 or 2011 when I read this book but it was a long time ago and truly an amazing book. Thatcher was also to develop and apply a rigorous program of microeconomic reform throughout the 1980s, to induce greater productivity and provide more opportunities for wealth creation. The policies included privatising government monopolies and government owned industries, deregulating product markets to allow competition to increase incentives for efficiency, reducing the power of the trades unions to disrupt the economy, and improving the level of home ownership (by allowing tenants to buy council housing). The book was more balanced on The Falklands War and I needed reminding of the terrible looses of life and life destroying injuries to so many in the Argentinian Air Force and British Navy encounters. The conflict, with all of its complexities, would fill volumes, so I intend to read a more in depth history of that. Behind the Mask My Autobiography By Tyson Fury and SAS Who Dares Wins Leadership Secrets from the Special Forces By Anthony Middleton 2 Books Collection Set

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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. It is worth noting that Who Dares Wins won several book of year awards when published, and that its composition and style are thoroughly engaging, as well as often witty and enlightening. I enjoyed particularly Sandbrook's characterisation of the Argentine military junta as comprising '... senior officers who had barely fired a shot ... They were particularly good at launching coups, wearing sunglasses, and murdering dissidents ... but their only experience of combat had been to apply electrodes to the genitals of left wing poets.' This and related global developments led many to think that the post war consensus that governments could control their economies by simply switching taxation and spending policies was no longer effective or appropriate. Central planning was failing dismally in the eastern bloc communist countries, and aggregate, centralised government of economies in the democracies under the Keynesian model was also failing dramatically.

Softcover. Condition: Very good. VG softcover. First edition, first printing. Light signs of wear to exterior, binding solid and straight, interior clean and unmarked. Lightly read, but a very nice example. first edition ("First published in the United Kingdom in 2009", first printing (complete number line).

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

I have read several of Dominic Sandbrook’s books before and so I was delighted to have the chance to read his latest. This book covers the period 1979-1982 (incidentally, 1982 was the year I met my husband, so this is a pretty special period for me). Chosen as a Book of the Year in The Times, the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail, the London Evening Standard, the Mail on Sunday, Prospect and BBC History MagazineThis is top-notch narrative history. It tells things as they were and corrects popular myths. But it's a bit short on the analytical side, especially on the business side of things. Reading it, one would get the impression that the economic turnaround was just a matter of Geoffrey Howe pulling the right levers, unemployment smashing the unions, and Nissan building a state-of-the-art factory. But surely that wasn't all there was to it. The tail end of the book is consumed largely by the Falklands conflict, Sandbrook deflating the usual narrative of a jingoist prime minister fighting a war that nobody bar the Sun supported and showing how not only was the idea of ceding sovereignty of the islands in the air before the war, it was actually the resistance of the Argentine government which prevented it from happening. The broader story, however, reveals a conflict brewing between rival media providers and the fractures within the Labour Party, foreshadowing issues that have become relevant again only recently. SAS Star Jason Fox Would Have 'Probably' Killed Himself If He Hadn't Received Help With Mental Health". LADbible. A great read ... worth every penny ... an enjoyable romp through my teenage years." Paul Donnelley, Daily Express