The Hard Way: Adapt, Survive and Win

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Mark Billingham turned his hand into writing comedy scripts for TV, as well as continued to act and appear in front of the camera in various occasions. Generally, he is a self confessed fan of crime fiction and a very serious collector.

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Mark billy billingham is the only actual sas man out of the ds team the others having served in the sbs.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. I found the epilogue quite inspirational, as he reflected on the turning points in his life which had shaped him, and the key figures along his journey who had influenced him to become the person he is today, and these and other things which drive him when he is in tight situations or faced with difficult decisions. His mindset is to constantly prove himself, to feel as though he is being constantly observed, like he was in selection, but this time it's to the people in the past who doubted him, and to himself who he knows continues to grow, and to his wife and children and all the others who he knows believe in him. 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.” As a result, he has received numerous awards, including the Queen’s Commendation for Bravery and an MBE presented to Billy byHer Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. 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.

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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. 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. Generally, Thorne’s internal continuity is essential to his author since the events of his past affect the individuals who are in the present. However, this very aspect of his character causes Billingham great difficulty in describing him without giving away plot twists. Scaredy cat I like the way that he has respected the secrecy of the sas by not revealing to much about his service but also just enough to keep the reader engaged. In the year 2011, Mark Billingham was inducted into the ITV3 crime thriller awards hall of fame. He also won 1995 Royal Television Society Award for the best entertainment programme. While he was at Knight School, he was nominated for the Best Children’s Drama Award for two consecutive years. WritingHe 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 Sadly, this is often when mental health issues start. Stepping off what he calls “the crazy train” of SAS service, the dissipation of that high-octane lifestyle, run on adrenaline and fear, can leave service people with too much thinking time. Billy Billingham grew up tough. Leaving school at eleven, the threat of borstal hanging over his head, running with gangs in Birmingham, and almost being killed in a knife fight eventually led to Billy discovering the British armed forces at sixteen. It would be the making of him. 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.

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The most experienced Special Forces soldier in recent memory. The Hard Way is brutally brilliant.' – Tom Marcus , Number One bestselling author of Soldier Spy 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---”.

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There’s a duty to all of us as soldiers to keep in touch. You know when something is not right.” And remembering, he says: “The biggest element of bravery or courage is asking for help.” 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 For Billingham, Bosnia was the most mentally gruelling conflict. With their role as observers, the British forces were unable to do anything but witness the unspeakable atrocities happening around them. 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.

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He’s sitting on a beaten-up old Chesterfield sofa at HR4K, a gym-cum-coffee-hangout on the outskirts of Hereford, where the SAS is based. His British bulldog, Alfie, is snoozing beside him. They both flew over the day before from Florida, where he lives with his second wife, American fashion designer Julie Colombino. HR4K was founded by Ben Garwood, a former SAS operator, and offers the sort of comradeship that Billingham is talking about today. It’s appalling, says Billingham, but he can see now how it happens: “People get into a dark space where they feel they can’t talk to anybody because they feel it’s a weakness. I hope that conversation is changing.” 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. As he explains, they were kept bound and engaged in their hotel room by a trio of masked men who stole credit cards and items from them. Billingham at some point recalls being terrified by the sheer audacity of the criminals who succeeded to instill a feeling of menace and fear into their victims.

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Mental health wasn’t something Billingham ever talked about while he was serving in the SAS for 17 years, even when they returned from an operation one soldier down, an empty bunk representing a friend lost. “I honestly never believed in it. I actually thought it was a weakness. I know it’s not now,” he says emphatically. “I now know it’s a big problem.” 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.