Too Thin for a Shroud

8 June 1982, Falklands: Britain's Most Lethal Day of Combat since World War II

Crispin Black (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2023
Gibson Square Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78334-229-7 (ISBN)

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A gripping first-hand portrait of the Falklands War by Lt. Col. Crispin Black who fought during the war and was on the Sir Galahad when it was bombed.

In 1982, eight young Guards officers in their twenties found themselves suddenly on the way to the Falklands 8000 miles away from Britain. Some four decades later, they realised that no one had written the history of this unique war in Britain's history from their side - including coming under Argentine fire on Sir Galahad on 8 June, the most dramatic day in Britain's military history since the second world war. Crispin Black tells their story and casts a startling new light on what happened to them, using the latest official documents. Even basic facts have remained hidden to this day.

Crispin Black served as platoon commander of the Welsh Guards in the Falklands and survived the bombing of the HMS Sir Galahad. He was moved to Northern Ireland and Germany before joining the Ministry of Defence as COBRA intelligence liaison. A Colonel, he is a Fellow of Chatham House and has written for The Times, Guardian and Telegraph and commented on intelligence on the BBC, Channel 4, Sky and ITV.

Introduction
1. 'What dreams may come'
2. Doubts
3. 'Untune that string'
4. The Navy's Private Army
5. Mortars and All That
6. South
7. The Waiting Room, 2nd June
8. March to Nowhere
9. Towards Bluff Cove, June 4-6th
10. Eyewitness: Jan Koops
11. Exocets and All That
12. Eyewitness: Jan Koops - Port Pleasant/Fitzroy
13. 10:26am, 8th June
14. Eyewitness: Jan Koops - Air Raid Warning Red
15. Eyewitness: Hugh Boddington
16. Eyewitness: Johnny Strutt
17. 'The valiant taste of death but once.'
18. Eyewitness: Captain Koops - Upsetting An Apple Cart
19. Stirrings
20. The Southern Flank
21. The Devil in the Detail
22. 2nd June
23. Basics
24. Eyewitness
25. The New Plan: Major Guy Yeoman
26. The Death Knell
27. Shambles
28. A Sound of Revelry by Night
29. The next morning, 8th June
30. The Inquiry Board: Major Sayle
31. Squandering Half a Battalion
32. Admiral Fieldhouse
33. Fieldhouse's Fingerprints
34. General Jeremy Moore
35. A Swiss Cheese
36. Army Doctrine
37. The Darkest Day: 14th July 1982
38. Eyewitness: Captain Koops - Walk on Wales
39. Return South
Postscript

Erscheinungsdatum	16.01.2023
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-78334-229-3 / 1783342293
ISBN-13	978-1-78334-229-7 / 9781783342297
Zustand	Neuware