Ultimate Special Forces

Hugh McManners was born in Oxford, England, brought up in Australia, and educated at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst and Oxford University. During 18 years in the British Army, with 148 Commando Forward Observation Battery, he was a commando, paratrooper, and an army diving supervisor, and ran the British Army's jungle warfare training school in Belize. During the Falklands War, he fought with the Special Boat Squadron and worked with the SAS. Hugh has also served in the Ministry of Defense in London, at Fort Ord, California, with the US Army's "Light Fighters," on counter terrorist duties in Northern Ireland, and with the United Nations. Hugh then became an author, television documentary producer, and broadcaster, and for five years was the Defense Correspondent of the London Sunday TimesMcManners, Hugh is the author of 'Ultimate Special Forces', published 2003 under ISBN 9780789499738 and ISBN 0789499738.