First book I've read by this author. A good read, especially after disappointing efforts by once best selling authors such as Clive Cusler, Steve Berry & Wilbur Smith living off their names. 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 Oversize Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Browne, Dik (illustrator). 1st Edition. An uncreased spine with very light edge wear. No store stamp. Chris Ryan was born in 1961 in a village near Newcastle. In 1984 he joined the SAS. During his ten years in the Regiment, he was involved in overt and covert operations and was also Sniper team commander of the anti-terrorist team.

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Excellent analysis of the period, easy and enjoyable to read. Uses a huge range of sources, including Adrian Mole, Dear Bill, and TV of the time, as well as the official papers and academic books you would expect. So although it is weighty, comprehensive, and academically rigorous, it is also engaging, humorous, and absolutely fascinating. 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. Brilliant ... The political manoeuvrings of 1979-82 are traced with a novelistic verve that would have done credit to House of Cards, but Sandbrook's interests range much further afield ... The entry under 'Bowie, David' in the index is worth buying the book for alone." Tom Holland, Books of the Year, BBC History MagazineAbsolutely breathtaking ... delicious ... an immense book ... If anyone wants to know what has been happening to Britain since the 1950s, it is difficult to imagine a more informative, or better-humoured guide ... Sandbrook’s chapters on the war have a Thucydidean coolness, balance and wisdom that is superb." A N Wilson, The Times 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. Immaculately well-researched, breathtakingly broad and beautifully written ... a history of the everyday as well as of the great affairs of state ... This book evokes with astonishing accuracy what it was like to be alive at the time ... Sandbrook has maintained the uniformly high standard of this important series, and leaves the reader impatient for the next volume." Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph His second book Life Under Fire: How to Build Inner Strength and Thrive Under Pressure [9] was released October 15, 2020.

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Very informative read, Very well written and easy to absorb as each chapter goes over what you've just took in making it easier to understand and remember. Britons can justly be said to be amnesiacs about their empire. That isn't the case for WW2, when--all together now--Britain stood alone. If WW2 was the apotheosis of British history, then the reversal at Suez was their nadir. Afterwards, the country drifted, seemingly barricaded on Decline Boulevard. The narrative spinners, at least, were only too keen to sell that impression. He is Chief Instructor on Channel 4’s hit show SAS: Who Dares Wins, alongsideDS Rudy Reyes, Jason FoxandChris Oliver. Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuthMidgley, Carol. "The Final Mission: Foxy's War review — Foxy puts his demons to rest"– via www.thetimes.co.uk. Fox, with his co-star of SAS: Who Dares Wins, Ollie Ollerton, co-founded a corporate team building, training and events company. In 2019, Fox and Ollerton went on to launch the fitness and wellbeing app Battle Ready 360 – which focuses on personalised plans for individuals looking to balance mind, body and nutrition. Brilliantly entertaining & informative history of 1970s and early 80s Britain. I now undersatnd why my parents thought Tony Benn was dangerous, and Michael Foot unsuitable for PM. I never really knew who Roy Strong was. Sandbrook made Margaret Thatcher (whom my parents consistently supported & who I never could) a *more* sympathetic character. It is now a cliche that anytime Britain does something loopy for commentators to pop out and intone: 'is this imperial nostalgia?' Who Dares Wins suggests that it isn't quite that. I will observe, however, that as my undergraduate degree was in political science with a focus on international political economy, I felt well equipped to handle the economic discussions, but I am not certain how a novice would feel about it.

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The Falklands War proved to be the pivotal moment in Margaret Thatcher’s first term as Prime Minister. Indeed, if Argentina had not invaded the Falkland Islands, it is unlikely that she would have secured even a second term, far less a third. The British economy plummeted during her first years as Prime Minister, and unemployment soared, extending beyond three million. Of course, this was particularly ironic given the success of the Conservatives’ election campaign, a key element of which had been billboards showing huge queues outside a Job Centre with the slogan, ‘Labour isn’t working’. Even senior figures within her own party was starting to challenge her approach. During the opening years of her premiership, Britain saw vicious riots spreading throughout the country, in places as far apart as Brixton, Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham and Cardiff.Who Dares Wins captures the period with clairvoyant vividness. Compulsively readable, the book will be indispensable to anyone who wants to understand these pivotal years.' - John Gray, New Statesman Billy joined the Parachute Regiment in 1983 and served until 1991. He held an array of positions, including Patrol Commander for operational tours in many worldwide locations and also served as a training instructor for the Regiment as a military specialist.

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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.' I've never read anything like this before so have nothing to compare it to. Either way, I enjoyed it and found it interesting from start to finish. Thatcherism may have seemed at the time to be a reaction to the terminal decline of Keynesian policies to manage aggregate demand, and the standard response to economic crises by activating anti-cyclic policies, ie, stimulating demand and employment with programs financed by government borrowing when recession threatened and government receipts declined. 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.

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Or did it? The reality was more complicated, says Sandbrook. Even before the Argentinian invasion the Tories had been on an upswing, inflation was falling, business improving, and their approval rate was more than 30%. This contrasts with the opening sections of the book, which lay out the sorry state of Britain at the turn of the 80s – economic decline, unemployment, inflation, violence in Northern Ireland, strikes, riots, and a general sense that our days of being “Great” were long gone. The received wisdom is that Thatcher set about destroying British industry by hammering the unions, instituting cash controls – monetarism – and plunging the country into recession. But, as Sandbrook argues, coal, steel and car-making had been in steep decline for years, and the recession would have happened even under Labour. Similarly, the right to buy, the Tories’ controversial sale of council houses, predated Thatcher by at least a decade; her twist on the policy was to make it law. Mrs Thatcher enjoyed watching snooker, though leisure was not something she understood