H Jones VC: The Life & Death Of An Unusual Hero

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'A remarkable book
- a worthy tribute both to the man John Wilsey calls 'an unusual hero' & to the ethos of the British Army in which he lived & died.' John Keegan in his Foreword This is the biography of the Falklands War hero whose death in the battle for Darwin & Goose Green was one of the turning points in the whole campaign. It is written with the consent of H Jones's widow, Sara, & is published to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of his death at the climax of the Falklands War. It is the story of an emblematic but complex war hero whose family history was unusual, whose army life included exposure to most of the military problems which Britain has encountered since the Second World War (including security in Northern Irel&, where H Jones was responsible for the search for Robert Nairac), & whose dramatic death & subsequent posthumous VC symbolised an extraordinary campaign which was truly the end of an era.