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Author : Rex Hunt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book My Falkland Days written by Rex Hunt and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rex Hunt
Publisher : Politico's Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781842750179
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (51 download)
Download or read book My Falkland Days written by Rex Hunt and published by Politico's Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Rex Hunt was Governor of the Falkland Islands when the Argentinians invaded on 2 April 1982. Since his retirement, he has revisited the islands on several occasions and is a board member of the South Atlantic Medal Association.
Author : Jen Carter
Publisher : Hope Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781908567451
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (674 download)
Download or read book My Falkland Islands Life written by Jen Carter and published by Hope Books Limited. This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world calls The Falkland Islands harsh and isolated. The Carters called it home... In 1982, war brought The Falkland Islands into the spotlight. When Jennifer and her family put down roots in an unspoiled community on West Falkland, they can't help but see the unruly climate and the close proximity to a frozen wasteland. How could a place like this be worth fighting for?The Carters quickly learn that the Falklands way of life is friendliness and self-sufficiency. Their new life becomes one of abundant wildlife and growing their own food, but it never strays from the island's true British identity. Part homesteading, part off-the-grid, and all charm, this loving testimony to the resilient people of the islands will have you adding the Falklands to your bucket list in an instant. My Falkland Islands Life is the story of one family's adventure in a British territory 8,000 miles from the United Kingdom. Whether you live on the islands, plan to travel there, or enjoy fascinating travelogues, you'll love Jen Carter's engaging memoir of a charming life at the bottom of the world. Buy My Falkland Islands Life to discover the true Falklands today!
Author : Admiral Sandy Woodward
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007390513
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)
Download or read book One Hundred Days (Text Only) written by Admiral Sandy Woodward and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling, highly-acclaimed and most famous account of the Falklands War, written by the commander of the British Task Force.
Author : Nick van der Bijl
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445694190
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book My Friends, The Enemy written by Nick van der Bijl and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nick van der Bijl's account is the first time that a prime witness involved in the Falklands War has told the story of intelligence operations.
Author : Kenneth L Privratsky
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473823129
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Logistics in the Falklands War written by Kenneth L Privratsky and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Nell Stevens
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385541562
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book Bleaker House written by Nell Stevens and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When she was twenty-seven, Nell Stevens—a lifelong aspiring novelist—won an all-expenses-paid fellowship to go anywhere in the world to write. Would she choose a glittering metropolis, a romantic village, an exotic paradise? Not exactly. Nell picked Bleaker Island, a snowy, windswept pile of rock in the Falklands. Other than sheep, penguins, paranoia, and the weather, there aren’t many distractions, but as Nell soon discovers, total isolation and 1,085 calories a day are far from ideal conditions for literary production. With deft humor, this memoir traces her island days and slowly reveals the life and people she has left behind in pursuit of her writing. It seems that there is nowhere she can run—an island or the pages of her notebook—to escape the big questions of love, art, and, ambition.
Author : Tony Banks
Publisher : Abacus
ISBN 13 : 0748130608
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Storming The Falklands written by Tony Banks and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Mary Ellen Mark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783969990926
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Falkland Road written by Mary Ellen Mark and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sidney Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781909716278
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (162 download)
Download or read book My Secret Falklands War written by Sidney Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : John Smith
Publisher : London : Century
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book 74 Days written by John Smith and published by London : Century. This book was released on 1984 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cedric Delves
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1787381811
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Across an Angry Sea written by Cedric Delves and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Chris Parry
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241959632
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Down South written by Chris Parry and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Down South by Chris Parry - one man's astonishing diary of war in the Falklands 'A gripping account of heroism - and chaos - in the South Atlantic' Mail on Sunday 'Compelling, gripping. A vividly written, thought-provoking and engaging account' The Times In 1982 Lieutenant Chris Parry sailed aboard destroyer HMS Antrim to liberate the Argentine-occupied Falkland Islands. Parry and his crew, in their Wessex helicopter, were soon launched into action rescuing an SAS party stuck on a glacier in gales that had already downed two others. Soon after they single-handedly pursued and fatally wounded a submarine before taking part in terrifying but crucial drop landings under heavy fire. Down South is a hands on, day-by-day account of war fought in the most appalling conditions by men whose grit and fighting spirit overcame all obstacles. This important and extraordinary book of recent history will be enjoyed by readers of Antony Beevor and Max Hastings. 'Gripping. A graphic description of just how they pulled off a real-life Mission Impossible' Daily Express 'Excellent. A fascinating war diary' Daily Telegraph 'Vivid and insightful. Parry excels in revealing the day-to-day challenges of fighting a campaign in hostile surroundings' Financial Times 'A truly gripping historical account' Niall Ferguson 'A priceless contribution to military history. Riveting' Literary Review Chris Parry joined the Royal Navy after university and then became an Observer in the Fleet Air Arm in 1979. After the Falklands War he had a successful career in the navy, and on promotion to Rear Admiral in 2005 he became the Ministry of Defence's Director of Developments, Concepts and Doctrines. He was appointed a CBE in 2004. Now retired from the armed services, he heads a company which specializes in geo-strategic forecasting.
Author : David Hart-Dyke
Publisher : Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1838954740
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (389 download)
Download or read book Four Weeks in May written by David Hart-Dyke and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reissued for the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War. A Sunday Times Bestseller 'Electric... Outstanding.' Guardian In March 1982 the guided-missile destroyer HMS Coventry was one of a small squadron of ships on exercise off Gibraltar. By the end of April that year she was sailing south in the vanguard of the Task Force towards the front line of the Falklands War. On 25 May, Coventry was attacked by two Argentine Skyhawks, and hit by three bombs. The explosions tore out most of her port side and killed nineteen of the crew, leaving many others injured. Within twenty minutes she had capsized. In her final moments, after all the survivors had been evacuated, her Captain, David Hart Dyke, himself badly burned, climbed down her starboard side and into a life-raft. This is his compelling and moving story.
Author : Chris Chant
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472800516
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Air War in the Falklands 1982 written by Chris Chant and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-20 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The war fought between the United Kingdom and Argentina in 1982, for the possession of the Falkland Islands was probably the last 'colonial' war that will ever be undertaken by the British. This book shows how the key to British success was the speed with which the British gained and then maintained air superiority over the islands and the waters around then with their small force of Sea Harrier STOVL warplanes, which operated from two aircraft carriers. Though subsonic, the Sea Harrier and its Sidewinder AAM were a combination altogether superior to Argentina's mix of supersonic and subsonic warplanes with older weapons, and this advantage was emphasised by the significantly greater tactical acuity of the British pilots. The Argentine pilots fought with considerable piloting skill and enormous courage, and scored a number of stunning successes against British warships, but ultimately they could not prevent the British landing and the following land campaign that resulted in complete Argentine defeat.
Author : Natasha S. Mauthner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674007611
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (76 download)
Download or read book The Darkest Days of My Life written by Natasha S. Mauthner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The resulting depression - how it is experienced, and how it might be relieved - is the subject of Natasha Mauthner's insightful and compassionate book, which recounts the stories of new mothers caught between a cultural ideal and a far more complex reality.".
Author : Mike Norman
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 152671079X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book The Falklands Wary—There and Back Again written by Mike Norman and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A highly readable yet harrowing account [of] defeat, disappointment, tragedy, and eventual triumph set against the stormy waters of the South Atlantic.” —Naval Historical Foundation April 1, 1982: Major Mike Norman, commander of Naval Party 8901, was looking forward to a peaceful yearlong tour of duty on the Falkland Islands. But events turned out differently—because the next day, the Argentines invaded and he and his forty-three Royal Marines found themselves fighting for their lives. They took up defensive positions around Government House and on the approach to Stanley from Cape Pembroke to protect Governor Rex Hunt and delay the advance to Stanley. They were prepared to die executing his orders. After a desperate battle in the gardens and even inside the house against superior numbers, Hunt ordered them to lay down their arms. As the surrender took place, an Argentine told a marine: The islands are ours now. The response was simple: We will be back. They were, and this is their story. The Royal Marines of Naval Party 8901—as well as some members of the previous detachment—volunteered to join the Task Force and, some seventy-five days later, the men who witnessed the raising of the Argentine flag over the islands on April 2 saw the triumphant return of the Union Jack. Mike Norman’s dramatic account, written with fellow Falklands veteran and acclaimed historian Michael Jones, draws on his own vivid recollections, the log recording the defense of Government House, the testimony of the marines under his command, and newly released files from government archives. It’s a powerful and moving tribute to the marines who confronted the Argentines when they invaded and then fought to force them out.
