Battle for the Falklands (1)

Land Forces

• Author(s): Will Fowler,
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
• Pages: 48
• ISBN_10: 0850454824
  ISBN_13: 9780850454826
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Military / General ,

Description:... On the night of 1–2 April 1982, the Argentinian Junta led by Gen. Leopoldo Galtieri made its move against the Falkland Islands. On 3 April British Prime Minister Mrs. Margaret Thatcher faced an appalled and furious House of Commons to announce that Argentine armed forces had landed on British sovereign territory; had captured the men of Royal Marine detachment NP8901; had run up the Argentine flag at Government House; and had declared the islands and their population to be Argentine. This absorbing text by William Fowler details the land forces that contested the Falklands War.