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The Hard Way: Adapt, Survive and Win by Mark 'Billy' Billingham
4.0
The fourth SASWhoDaresWins guy to get his biography out is the highest decorated and an MBE.
Starting from a scrubby childhood in Walsall Billy has a couple of run ins with men who, instead of giving him a good hiding, see something there and tell him to join boxing, where a new avenue of life opens up.
Later his brother takes him along to cadets, appreciating the order and discipline and underneath understanding his own accountability for how things are, Billy starts looking longterm at a career in the army, the Paras no less, and off he goes.
With a string work ethic he finds this life suits him, not always his family, but he excels.
There are a few war stories in here and I enjoyed the jungle ones along with him. Never telling all he gives enough to give the picture of the madness on the ground.
His life as security is interesting. I didn't know he had been bodyguard for so many Hollywood names.
I liked his outlook at problem solving and the way he has carved his life his own way. Even as he says, the hard way.
At the too he has his life lessons he adheres to which are informative and you know when he makes decisions later in the book these were his base of thinking.
His dealings in Haiti in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake a few years ago also see him come through as a man who can get things done, a man who plans and can see a bigger picture.
I found this a different read from the other guys. I felt engaged and his no nonsense opinion of his combat and actions, acknowledging he was a cause of many of his own problems when young, with enough savvy to know when to turn it around he has made himself quite the life story worth reading about.
A nod to Conor Woodman his 'ghost writer' who managed to put such a life into an order I could enjoy reading about.
Starting from a scrubby childhood in Walsall Billy has a couple of run ins with men who, instead of giving him a good hiding, see something there and tell him to join boxing, where a new avenue of life opens up.
Later his brother takes him along to cadets, appreciating the order and discipline and underneath understanding his own accountability for how things are, Billy starts looking longterm at a career in the army, the Paras no less, and off he goes.
With a string work ethic he finds this life suits him, not always his family, but he excels.
There are a few war stories in here and I enjoyed the jungle ones along with him. Never telling all he gives enough to give the picture of the madness on the ground.
His life as security is interesting. I didn't know he had been bodyguard for so many Hollywood names.
I liked his outlook at problem solving and the way he has carved his life his own way. Even as he says, the hard way.
At the too he has his life lessons he adheres to which are informative and you know when he makes decisions later in the book these were his base of thinking.
His dealings in Haiti in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake a few years ago also see him come through as a man who can get things done, a man who plans and can see a bigger picture.
I found this a different read from the other guys. I felt engaged and his no nonsense opinion of his combat and actions, acknowledging he was a cause of many of his own problems when young, with enough savvy to know when to turn it around he has made himself quite the life story worth reading about.
A nod to Conor Woodman his 'ghost writer' who managed to put such a life into an order I could enjoy reading about.