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New edition, with new cover and introduction, of the classic account which has been out of print for three years.
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Max Hastings, author of over twenty books, has been editor of the Daily Telegraph and the Evening Standard. He has won many awards for his journalism, particularly his work in the south Atlantic in 1982. Simon Jenkins is an award-winning journalist and author of over fifteen books. He writes for the Guardian and the Sunday Times, as well as broadcasting for the BBC.
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A good book indeed. However I believe the authors are wrong when they say the Argentine conscripts were not trained for the job. Being Argentine, I have been privileged to see many in the documentaries about the war. One has to read (British Major) Mark Adkin's Goose Green: A battle is fought to be won to realize the British troops took on tough and competent conscript units. Also I believe the authors have been misled like many British soldiers were when it came to the state of Argentine morale among the units dug in the hills outside Stanley. The fact is that the Argentine Commando patrols did move about aggressively in no man's land and denied the British patrols as much as they could,control of no man's land and the Argentine HQ did put up a fight in a bid to retain Mount Kent as Nick van der Bijl in his book Nine Battles to Stanley (pubished in 1999 by Leo Cooper) proves and he was there as a colonel of the Royal Marines. He proves it when he writes that a patrol of the 601 Commando Company attacked a 3 Para patrol capturing its equipment and that a 602 Commando Company patrol did the same on Mount Wall. Also I must point out that Bijl establishes that several Argentine infantry platoons carried out daring counterattacks in the battles for the hills outside Stanley, slowing down the advancing British platoons and leaving many in dissaray. Nevertheless this book is a must especially when it comes to the first hand accounts of the British soldiers.
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The reader Stewart Stakes is completely one-sided in his review of the book. I was born and lived in Argentina up to the Falklands war; the military waged the war on the rationale that they were the champions of anti-communism and could get away with everything they did. The lack of continuity in American, foreign policies between the Carter and the Reagan administrations greatly encouraged the Argentine, genocial Junta to wage the war. The above reader displays the typical ethnocentric, isolationist American mentality, which does not allow to properly regard other people's points of view. I live in the States, I am not anti-American, but I can at least partially agree with the author of the book in what the Falklands War is concerned ( the Korean war is an entirely different matter ). Before and after President Carter, the U.S. showed no practical concern for the genocide that was going on in Argentina. I saw the Falklands War as a battle between democracy ( England ) and Nazi-facism ( Argentina ), but the U.S. was only concerned in defeating communism, even using the fascist, Latin American military as an instrument for the same goal. Why did not President Reagan continued the human rights campaign against Argentina that President Carter had started? Because of Mr. Reagan's sympathies for the anti-communist stand of the Argentine military. Yes, the U.S. ought to acknowledge its share of guilt in the Falklands War, so that anti-americanism in Argentina would not be a fact that encourages fascism there.
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This is a tricky book to review. It is certainly not, in my opinion, a 'Classic' or set-text, but it does contain an astonishing amount of information about the Falklands crisis and ensuing war (though relatively little about the repercussions and implications) and the authors' attention to detail is impressive. For these facts alone, the book deserves 3 stars. But I couldn't help getting bored with the narrative and ended up thinking that I had a read a lot, but hadn't learnt much. One problem is precisely the fact that there is a wealth of information and fact on every page, so much in fact that you lose track of what is happening. Another problem is that the narrative (if you can call it that) is so 'objective' it doesn't grip you. I found myself skipping page after page of only vaguely relevant facts and figures....in a desperate attempt to get to get to the point - but it never really gets to that point. As a reference book, I am sure it is brilliant, as a book page-turner, well, it didn't work for me. Informative but boring.
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Excellent book!!
This is a very detailed account of the Battle for the Falklands. I know people who were involved with this battle and had told me this book was very realistic to what really... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 24. August 1999 von Kenny Arnold
Blame the U.S. for every British loss.
In his history of the Korean War, Mr. Hastings unabashedly blamed the United States for each British loss. Somehow, and the logic is completely obtuse, Mr. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 18. Juli 1999 von Stewart Stakes
The best account to date of a tragic conflict
This is without a doubt one of the best books ever written about this tragic war. The book while a little dry at times none-the-less is a detailed analysis of the precursors to the... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 14. Juni 1999 veröffentlicht
A comprehensive account of Great Britains last colonial war
This book is truly the full account of the falklands conflict. It charts the history of the islands, from the initial discovery, to the lives lost in its defence. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 27. April 1999 veröffentlicht
A Dry Yet Factual Account Of The Last War Of The Empire
Max Hastings is a renowned and revered author on battles. His best book was published straight after the Falklands War and was titled "Don't Cry For Me Sergeant Major". Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 27. Juli 1998 von dgerecht@hotmail.com
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