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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 mostrar más 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 Times mostrar menos
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I learned some brilliantly simple tactics just from my first few minutes of skimming this book. Despite its relatively brief length, it is crammed with survival techniques. For example, just attach a small, fluffy feather and a rose hip (as a floater) to fishing line for an instant lure. As with all DK books, this one delivers. Too bad it's on the short side.
 
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YESterNOw | 2 reseñas más. | Jan 8, 2018 |
Absolutely excellent book on the effects of war on individual soldiers. Authoritative and convincing.
 
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jolyonpatten | otra reseña | Feb 1, 2016 |
I purchased this to add to my box of emergency supplies. While it contains useful information, over all, this is not helpful. It assumes too much prior knowledge on the mechanics of survival - like how to actually use a knife or tie knots. The bit about edible versus inedible plants was useless. There wasn't enough information to actually determine what one could or couldn't eat. The illustrations and such were good, but they often skipped steps or assumed the reader already knew how to get from A to B. I will still add this book to the box, but I will need to purchase something else to be supplement as this one is not going as helpful as I wanted.… (más)
 
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empress8411 | 2 reseñas más. | Apr 29, 2014 |
Una guida dall'interno alle unità militari più addestrate del mondo: l'equipaggiamento, le tecniche di intelligence, i metodi di ingaggio dei corpi combattenti di élite; dall'infiltrazione ognitempo in zone di guerra alla liberazione di ostaggi, dagli attacchi su obiettivi altamente sensibili alla ricognizione strategica.
Forze speciali come i SAS britannici o la Delta Force americana, il loro retroterra, l'organizzazione e le operazioni più importanti e una seziona sulla storia delle forze speciali, dalla guardia pretoriana romana ai SEAL dela US Navy.… (más)
 
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BiblioLorenzoLodi | Apr 5, 2013 |

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