ISBN: 9781529047806
Format: Paperback
Pub Date: 09/08/2022
Category: Military History: Post Ww2 Conflicts, Battles & Campaigns, British & Irish History, History Of Other Lands, HISTORY / Military / Wars & Conflicts (Other), HISTORY / Latin America / South America, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Maritime history, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999
Imprint: Pan
Price: $29.99
Pages: 528
The Battle for the Falklands is a thoughtful and informed analysis of an astonishing chapter in modern British history from journalist and military historian Sir Max Hastings and political editor Simon Jenkins.
Ten weeks. 28,000 soldiers. 8,000 miles from home.
The Falklands War in 1982 was one of the strangest in British history. At the time, many Britons saw it as a tragic absurdity - thousands of men sent overseas for a tiny relic of empire - but the British victory over the Argentinians not only confirmed the quality of British arms but also boosted the political fortunes of Thatcher's Conservative government. However, it left a chequered aftermath and was later overshadowed by the two Gulf wars.
Max Hastings’ and Simon Jenkins’ account of the conflict is a modern classic of war reportage and the definitive book on the conflict.
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Sir Max Hastings, author of numerous books including Bomber Command, Armageddon, Going to the Wars and Das Reich, was editor of the Daily Telegraph for almost a decade, and then edited the Evening Standard for six years. In his youth he was a foreign correspondent for newspapers and BBC television. He has won many awards for his books and journalism, particularly his work in the south Atlantic in 1982. He was knighted in 2002 for services to journalism.
Sir Simon Jenkins is an award-winning journalist and author of several books on the politics, history and architecture of England. He writes for the Guardian and the Sunday Times, as well as broadcasting for the BBC. He is the co-author of The Battle for the Falklands with Max Hastings. Jenkins was knighted for services to journalism in 2004.
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