A Damn Close-Run Thing: A Brief History of the Falklands War
In 1982, the average Briton didn't know the Falkland Islands existed, let alone their status as a disputed British territory just off the coast of Argentina. That changed when the Argentinians invaded the islands and overwhelmed the small defending force. Both nations claimed the islands were theirs, but now Argentina thought the British would give them up without a fight.They were wrong.Britain sent a task force into the South Atlantic to re-take the islands, and the short, intense war that followed was--in the words of Major-General Sir John Jeremy Moore--a damn close-run thing.This short history sums up the events leading up to the war and…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5070-6620-1
- EAN: 9781507066201
- Produktnummer: 31367770
- Verlag: Shilka Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 588 KB
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Russell Phillips writes books and articles about military technology and history. Born and brought up in a mining village in South Yorkshire, they have lived and worked in South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Cumbria and Staffordshire. Russell currently lives in Stoke-on-Trent with their wife and two children.Russell's articles have been published in Miniature Wargames, Wargames Illustrated, The Wargames Website, and the Society of Twentieth Century Wargamers' Journal. They have been interviewed on BBC Radio Stoke, The WW2 Podcast, The Voice of Russia, and Cold War Conversations.
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