Falklands War Then And Now

Product Description

In 1982 Argentina rashly gambled that a full-scale invasion of the Falklands Islands
- ownership of which had been disputed with Great Britain for over a century
- would put an end to years of political wrangling. However Britains response was to immediately dispatch a task force to recover the islands by force if necessary. The conflict which followed (a formal declaration of war was never given) lasted ten weeks from Argentine invasion to British liberation the white heat of battle using 20th century technology contrasting with bitter h&-to-hand bayonet fighting in inhospitable conditions. This title features eyewitness accounts by the participants of both sides & islanders that leave us in no doubt as to the ferocity of the combat on land sea & in the air. Its comparison photography in colour of all the battlefields the crash sites of the aircraft shot down the relics & the remains together with portraits of those who lost their lives & the battlefield memorials serve as a graphic testimony to their endeavours 25 years after the battle. A Roll of Honour" lists the casualties of both sides & for the first time the graves of all the British fallen
- both on the islands & the United Kingdom
- have been visited & photographed as a lasting record of all those who made the supreme sacrifice I what is most probably Britains last colonial war."