THE BATTLE FOR THE FALKLANDS
'Excellent' Financial Times
'Stirring, impressively detailed' Time magazine
The Battle for the Falklands is a thoughtful and informed analysis of an astonishing chapter in modern British history from journalist and military historian Sir Max Hastings and political editor Simon Jenkins.
Ten weeks. 28,000 soldiers. 8,000 miles from home.
The Falklands War in 1982 was one of the strangest in British history. At the time, many Britons saw it as a tragic absurdity - thousands of men sent overseas for a tiny relic of empire - but the British victory over the Argentinians not only confirmed the quality of British arms but also boosted the political fortunes of Thatcher's Conservative government. However, it left a chequered aftermath and was later overshadowed by the two Gulf wars.
Max Hastings' and Simon Jenkins' account of the conflict is a modern classic of war reportage and the definitive book on the conflict.
Edad recomendada: Adultos.
HASTINGS MAX
Sir Max Hastings 1945 es un prestigioso periodista, historiador y autor británico, ampliamente considerado uno de los cronistas de guerra más importantes de nuestra era. Su carrera es una mezcla fascinante de periodismo de primera línea y una vasta producción de libros sobre historia militar. Fue editor jefe de The Daily Telegraph y de The Evening Standard, y ha sido corresponsal de guerra en numerosos conflictos, incluyendo la Guerra de Vietnam, la Guerra de las Malvinas donde fue el primer periodista en entrar a Puerto Argentino y la Guerra del Yom Kippur.
