The Visual Dictionary of Special Military Forces

by Hugh McManners

Exploded-view artwork, full-color photographs, and an informative text introduce the equipment, weapons, and technology used by such elite military forces as the Navy SEALS, Green Berets, French Foreign Legion, and others.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Reference, Military Fiction

64 pages, Hardcover

Published March 15, 1993

About the author

After 18 years in the British Army including the Falklands War working with the SBS, Hugh became a non-fiction author and television producer. He was the Defence Correspondent of The Sunday Times from 1995 -2000. Hugh started writing fiction in 2022.
Hugh says: "I'm a campaigner and enthusiast. Having written a wide variety of non-fiction books, I'm now writing fiction - "military historical thrillers".
He's starting with a five book series running from 1980 until the end of the Falklands War in 1982. The first book "The Sunday Service" about the SAS and PIRA in Northern Ireland, is now published.
"I'm writing fiction as with all my books, to explain the reality of extreme situations to people who haven't experienced it for themselves," Hugh says.
"Fiction that uses action and violence with military characters and settings needs to be accurately portrayed. The brave people who risk life and limb for our security deserve this.
"Plus, I really dislike the word 'thrill" -dictionary definition: "a sudden feeling of excitement and pleasure". It's superficial, vicarious and simple, totally unlike the reality of military operations. But if you've not been a soldier on operations, how could you know that?
"I'm not quite sure where this gets me with writing "thrillers". I'll leave further comment to my readers."

Hugh is also a musician: a guitarist and songwriter. He was Director of The Scars of War Foundation at the University of Oxford, a pioneering research into the cognitive neuroscience of combat-related PTSD and brain injury in war veterans.

Reviews

[Matthew · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think the authors purpose for writing this book was so that people could learn and see what it was like back then when we had all of the low tech. equipement. For instance; now we have advanced transportation equipement. But back then we had to use army jeeps and ald fashion helicopters.

[Chris · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is about the military force and the diffenet weapons in the book.for exmpale one of the thing that i found out is they wear gillie suit.they drive military trucks.