Author: Sidney Edwards Publisher: ISBN: 9781909716278 Category : Falkland Islands War, 1982 Languages : en Pages : 112
Book Description
When Wing Commander Sidney Edwards was called from a relaxing Sunday at home to an urgent, high-level meeting, his top-secret involvement in the Falklands War began.
Author: Nigel West Publisher: Warner Books (NY) ISBN: 9780751520712 Category : Falkland Islands War, 1982 Languages : en Pages : 266
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A devastating critique of the Franks Report, and thus of Lord Carrington and Margaret Thatcher. Genuinely revelatory account of a famous military victory.
Author: Jim Eldridge Publisher: Puffin ISBN: 9780141317885 Category : Falkland Islands War, 1982 Languages : en Pages : 160
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Based on real events, Secret Assault tells of the story of the capture of Pebble Island during the Falklands War, and the major British invasion which followed. Follow one soldier's journey and feel a part of an elite team as they strategically take out the Argentinian air bases, one by one, under deadly cross-fire. As with the Warpath series, Eldridge brings the action alive. The Bookseller says of the Warpath series, 'Stuffed with facts and specifications to delight the technically minded. Great for readers who like true stories.' Placed within an historical context, these part fact, part fiction adventures of the SAS also contain fascinating information such as maps and equipment used, and provides an informative summing up of actual events.
Author: Kenneth L Privratsky Publisher: Pen and Sword ISBN: 1473823129 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 321
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While many books have been written on the Falklands War, this is the first to focus on the vital aspect of logistics. The challenges were huge; the lack of preparation time; the urgency; the huge distances involved; the need to requisition ships from trade to name but four.??After a brief discussion of events leading to Argentina's invasion the book describes in detail the rush to re-organise and deploy forces, despatch a large task force, the innovative solutions needed to sustain the Task Force, the vital staging base at Ascension Island, the in-theatre resupply, the set-backs and finally the restoring of order after victory.??Had the logistics plan failed, victory would have been impossible and humiliation inevitable, with no food for the troops, no ammunition for the guns, no medical support for casualties etc.??The lessons learnt have never been more important with increasing numbers of out-of-area operations required in remote trouble spots at short notice. The Falklands experience is crucial for the education of new generations of military planners and fascinating for military buffs and this book fills an important gap.
Author: Andrew Vine Publisher: Aurum Press ISBN: 9781781311844 Category : Falkland Islands War, 1982 Languages : en Pages : 321
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Vast and brilliant white, P&O's flagship the SS Canberra was a final salute to a bygone era of opulence even as she embarked on her maiden voyage, For a decade she carried passengers between Britain and Australia, a 90-day voyage of pampering and decadence. But in March 1982, Britain went to war to defend the Falkland Islands and the SS Canberra found herself, surreally, requisitioned as a troop ship to carry the Marines and Paratroops into battle. Against all odds she surived, playing a vital role as a hospital ship, At the end of the war she arrived back in Southampton to a heroes welcome, where she became fondly known as the Great White Whale. This is the extraordinary and, as yet, untold story of how the crew of a luxury ocean liner: waiters, cooks, nurses and cleaners, found themselves suddenly thrust onto the front line. A Very Strange Way to Go to War is a candid and captivating story, drawing from first hand accounts and previously unpublished archives, of the heroic courage of ordinary British men and women in the face of great adversity, at the outpost of empire.
Author: Stuart Prebble Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 0571290345 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 214
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HMS Conqueror is Britain's most famous submarine. It is the only sub since World War Two to have sunk an enemy ship. Conqueror's sinking of the Argentine cruiser Belgrano made inevitable an all-out war over the future of the Falkland Islands, and sparked off one of the most controversial episodes of twentieth century politics. The controversy was fuelled by a war-diary kept by an officer on board HMS Conqueror, and as a young TV producer in the 1980s Stuart Prebble scooped the world by locating the diary's author and getting his story on the record. But in the course of uncovering his Falklands story, Stuart Prebble also learned a military secret which could have come straight out of a Cold War thriller. It involved the Top Secret activities of the Conqueror in the months before and after the Falklands War. Prebble has waited for thirty years to tell his story. It is a story of incredible courage and derring-do, of men who put their lives on the line and were never allowed to tell what they had done. This story, buried under layers of official secrecy for three decades, is one of Britain's great military success stories and can now finally be told.
Author: Cedric Delves Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 1787381811 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 381
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In early summer 1982--winter in the South Atlantic--Argentina's military junta invades the Falklands. Within days, a British Royal Navy Task Force is assembled and dispatched. This is the story of D Squadron, 22 SAS, commanded by Cedric Delves. The relentless tempo of events defies belief. Raging seas, inhospitable glaciers, hurricane-force winds, helicopter crashes, raids behind enemy lines--the Squadron prevailed against them all, but the cost was high. Eight died and more were wounded or captured. Holding fast to their humanity, D Squadron's fighters were there at the start and end of the Falklands War, the first to raise a Union Jack over Government House in Stanley. Across an Angry Sea is a chronicle of daring, skill and steadfastness among a tight-knit band of brothers; of going awry, learning fast, fighting hard, and winning through.
Author: Tony Banks Publisher: Abacus ISBN: 0748130608 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 171
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Thirty years after the Falklands War 'Secret Millionaire' Tony Banks is still haunted by his experiences in the South Atlantic. As a member of the crack Parachute Regiment his unit was the first to land on the Falklands and he fought in the bloody first and last battles of the war before liberating Port Stanley. In this memoir Tony vividly recalls the fighting in the Falklands. He relives the bombing raids in San Carlos bay, the Battle of Goose Green, the Argentinian attack on the Sir Galahad and the Battle of Wireless Ridge. But he also tells of his own battles with Combat Stress and of how three decades on the war is still claiming victims. He tells the stories of British and Argentine veterans and travels to Argentina to return a war trophy - a trumpet he had taken from a prisoner - to its rightful owner. The return of the trumpet brings closure to both men. And finally Tony returns to the Falklands to lay the ghosts that have haunted him to rest.
Author: Lefvarch Christensen Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 388
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An unexpected report shakes the foundations of British intelligence just hours before the Argentine landing in the Falkland Islands. With no personnel operating in the area and with a short margin of time, MI6 must urgently corroborate the veracity of the information sent from Chile, which will be confirmed by the majority of the allied secret services over time. To carry out this mission, they will turn to an Intelligence Service applicant who lived her childhood in Argentina and with no field experience in the world of intelligence, who will become a key part of this operation Trapped between two worlds, nothing will be easy for her, who will be involved in a game of power and ambition, discovering much more than she was looking for. Diana Fletcher will return to the country where she was born to fulfil this mission and face the ghosts that will begin to emerge from the shadows of her own past
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