The Battle for the Falklands - Max Hastings and Simon jenkins
On the day, the Falklands War started 2 nd April 1982 I had just turned 14. I was becoming aware of the world around me and a little bit addicted to the news. San Carlos, Goose Green, Bluff Cove, Tumbledown, Kent, The Belgrano, HMS Sheffield, Atlantic Conveyor, HMS Coventry. These are all names that have passed into recent history and will always be a part of that 14-year-olds life and memory. The Falklands War was perhaps the greatest crisis in Britain’s post war history and with no social media, the news reports each day were hung on to with every word analysed and every image scrutinised. I first read The Battle for the Falklands book in 1983 as I had received it as a present that year. I have since read the book numerous times to check my understanding of events and simply because I like this book. The book is written from two perspectives, those of Max Hastings a journalist who travelled with the task force and was at the front line of th...