Fight for the Falklands [Paperback]

John Laffin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1982

Falklands war from begging to end. Trade paperback is Very Good. Author is John Laffin. Fight For the Falklands.

Product Details

• Paperback: 215 pages
• Publisher: St Martins Pr (September 1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312288689
• ISBN-13: 978-0312288686
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,696,875 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Somewhat cursory, focused on British side, June 19, 2000

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Craig MACKINNON (Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fight for the Falklands (Paperback)

What this book does, it does reasonably well. What it doesn't do lowers it to 3 stars. There is very little background information, virtually no information about the Argentine forces (save what they do in response to the British forces), and little on the root causes of steps that led Argentina to sieze the islands.

What it reads like is more of a blw-by-blow account (from a British point of view) of the battle to expel the Argentine forces from the islands. It is easy to read, and the limited geographical scope of the war allowed the reader to follow the steps with a limited number of maps.

A little more analysis would also have been nice - a comparison between the hardware of the 2 sides, the tactics, and maybe some comments about the state of mind of the islanders would have helped flesh out the narrative.