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The Battle for the Falklands
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"Must be read by all our military people and anyone who wants to find out what really happened on the Falkland Islands." - James M. Gavin
"The 1982 South Atlantic war was one of the strangest in British history. At the time, many Britons saw it as a tragic absurdity. Most accepted that some military response to the Argentine invasion was necessary, but necessary only after a serious breakdown in British policy and diplomacy. Any dispute that required the dispatch of 20,000 men to fight for a tiny relic of empire 8,000 miles from home was bizarre. Even in victory, the government felt obliged to examine its own performance prior to the crisis, with a commission of inquiry under Lord Franks. Its limited remit and careful exoneration of the politicians involved was and remains unconvincing."
Max Hastings
Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings FRSL FRHistS (born 28 December 1945) is a British journalist and military historian, who has worked as a foreign correspondent for the BBC, editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph, and editor of the Evening Standard. He is also the author of numerous books, chiefly on war, which have won several major awards. Hastings currently writes a bimonthly column for Bloomberg Opinion.
Hastings moved to the United States, spending a year (1967–68) as a Fellow of the World Press Institute, following which he published his first book, America, 1968: The Fire This Time, an account of the US in its tumultuous election year. He became a foreign correspondent and reported from more than sixty countries and eleven wars for BBC1's Twenty-Four Hours current affairs programme and for the Evening Standard in London.
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