Ordeal by Exocet [Paperback]

Ian Inskip (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 20, 2006

HMS Glamorgan, Admiral Woodward's Flagship until Hermes' arrival in Ascension, was in the thick of the fighting throughout the war. Her role for most of the time was that of an expendable escort and she was to face the full wrath of the enemy - and the elements - in the South Atlantic. Incorporating vivid first-hand accounts written at the time, and illustrated with photographs, the book also portrays the daily life of an escort under wartime conditions and describes only too clearly the tension, fear, storm, cold, disaster and sorrow which were so close at hand, though incidents of humor and moments of elation were certainly not uncommon. New light is shed on the Belgrano affair and startling new facts are revealed about other incidents including the high level conduct of the war. There is a detailed account of the successful deception plan, Operation Tornado, and, unusually, the impact of the war on the families left at home. While attacking the enemy, Glamorgan faced missiles, bombs, shells and rockets. Personal accounts recall these attacks, and other operations including the Pebble Island raid. All the Exocet attacks on the Battle Group are included, culminating with the desperate fight to save the ship, which came perilously close to sinking. The aftermath and the traumatic stress experienced by those who lost shipmates bring home the gruesome reality of war. Written by one who experienced that reality first-hand, "Ordeal by Exocet" vividly recalls the war in the South Atlantic twenty years on and brings to light many aspects which were then unknown to an unsuspecting public.

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Now retired, Commander Ian Inskip, Royal Navy, joined HMS Glamorgan as navigating officer in 1980.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Greenhill Books; First edition (February 20, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 186176197X
• ISBN-13: 978-1861761972
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,471,066 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Oreal by EXOCET, June 23, 2011

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The author provided a very wrong historical view of the British occupation of the Malvinas islands (Falklands islands). The historical explanation that try to justify the british colony in the south Atlantic is worng and vias since he also pointed as unjustify the Argentina clain without getting as deep on it as he did on the british version.
The description of in the life, feelings and military action are fair, sometimes too dramatic compared with the "oreal live for british and argentina military untis" in the islands. Specially the poor and heoric Argentinean 18 year old comcrips without military training and proper equitment.
The narrative of the book is confusion. Is it a "novel"? or is it an historical review the battleship in the south atlantic conflit?. The asnwer is that it is a mix that finished in a bad salad with confusion historial data.
The author should not have ignored the soviet presence in the south atlantic. This fact can explain so many alert of summarins attacks.
Finally, the author tells the british version of the carrier Invensible attack by the Argentina air force, which is false.
Not only the argentinias pilots that survived the attack to the carrier are telling the contrary, succeful attack, but also those soviets units that were watching by their summarins and sattelits can tell about the succeful attack.