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The Battle For The Falklands by Max Hastings & Simon Jenkins

San Carlos, Goose Green, Bluff Cove, Mount Tumbledown, Mount Kent: names which, until the spring of 1982, meant nothing to the vast majority of British people – names which will now be identified for ever with perhaps the greatest crisis in Britain's postwar history.

The Falkland Islands episode was characterised by an extraordinary blend of drama and tragi-comedy. It began with an incident so bizarre that few could take it seriously: the arrival of scrap merchants on one of the earth's most godforsaken spots. Two months later, a thousand men had died, and the islands had seen the biggest air/sea battle since the Second World War and an equally remarkable amphibious operation and land campaign.

Max Hastings reported the war from the sailing of the naval task force to the moment when he walked alone into Port Stanley ahead of the British vanguard. He went ashore with leading elements of the Royal Marine commandos at San Carlos, and watched the developing battle from ships, helicopters and with the marching marines. He landed in the first helicopter during the momentous seizure of Mount Kent, watched the fight for Port Stanley from tactical headquarters and, with the lead company of 2 Para, marched to the outskirts of the islands' capital.

Meanwhile, in London and Washington, Simon Jenkins traced every political and diplomatic twist of the crisis from the invasion to the cease fire. As war raged in the South Atlantic, Latin American politics were thrown into confusion, as were the Reagan government's precarious relations with that continent. The Atlantic alliance was placed under severe strain. Jenkins provides a penetrating analysis of the intricacies and repercussions of all these developments. This, combined with Hastings's vivid eyewitness accounts, must come as close to a definitive version of the war as any authors will be able to attain for years to come.

Features;

• Publisher Michael Joseph Ltd., London; 1983
• Black Cloth Hardback, 372 pp
• Illustrated in B/W with plates and 7 maps
• Size 240 x 160mm, 1.1kg
• ISBN 0 7181 2228 3

Condition: Very Good – Very Good Unclipped Dust Jacket, No Inscriptions, Very Good Copy

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