The Hard Way: Adapt, Survive and Win

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He stayed in Birmingham and helped form a theater company called Bread and Circuses which toured with a number of shows in schools, art centers, colleges, and streets. He later moved from Birmingham to London in the mid 1980’s where he was acting as a jobbing actor who took minor roles in episodes of TV shows. 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. Having now read all the books by the ds team of sas who dares wins I would have to say that I enjoyed this one the most. He became the first crime writer to win the Theakston’s old peculiar crime novel of the year award two times when his novel Death message won in the year 2009. His first two novels include: Sleepyhead

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It became the biggest selling first appearance novel of that summer. In the year 2009, the novel was listed as one of the 100 novels which shaped the decade and was later chosen as one of the best titles for World Book Night in 2011. 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. He has been shot at, stabbed and blown up. He’s also been held hostage, as well as successfully negotiating hostage situations. He has lost close friends and comrades while on covert operations all over the world, but some of the most dangerous days of Mark “Billy” Billingham’s life came after he left the SAS.It can be hard to spot the signs that a friend is struggling, something he has learnt the hard way. A friend with whom he had spent his whole career took his life 10 years after leaving the Army. When you leave the military, he says, no one sits you down and says: “This is what will happen; this is what you need to do.” It felt like everything was imploding on me. I was stranded,” recalls the 57-year-old today. “It was a whole new world for me. I was scared to talk to people. I couldn’t tell them what I’d been doing for years. The Special Forces world is all cloak and dagger, no one knows who you are or what you are.” No one trains to see someone tortured and mutilated. There’s no training for that,” he says. Camaraderie the key

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That loss of community and identity coincides with too much time for reflection. Smells, certain songs – it’s unpredictable what will trigger a memory of a traumatic event in your service past. Another novel tiled Lazybones won the Theakston’s Old peculiar Crime Novel of the year award in 2004, and later won the same award for his Death Message novel. A Novel, in the dark, was also nominated for the crime writers Association Gold dagger at 2009 crime Thriller Awards. Mark billy billingham is the only actual sas man out of the ds team the others having served in the sbs. He later decided to pursue a career in comedy in the year 1987. Within a year Mark had headlines at the comedy store on several occasions where he frequently appeared as a Master of Ceremonies. In the year 1988, mark Billingham was seen on the children’s comedy series news at twelve in which the central character broadcasts his own TV news bulletin every evening. Award and nominations I joined the Parachute Regiment with him and then the SAS after him. We were so close. In all the time I knew him we’d never been on the phone more than 10 seconds, just long enough to arrange to go down the pub. Then one night he called me up and we were on the phone for 15 minutes and he kept saying: ‘It’s great being a granddad, isn’t it?’ And I thought: ‘This isn’t him’. I was waiting for the punchline. I ignored it, but I knew something wasn’t right. Now I know I should have gone and seen him.”It’s why Billingham hopes that support for the Tommy Club will help it to build its services for veterans, to foster more communities where veterans can get together, to train, have a coffee and “shoot the s---”.