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Ronald Payne
ASIN: B0168KTQNW
Publisher: Endeavour Press
Pages: 194

On 19 March, 1982 a party of Argentine demolition workers landed at Leith Harbour, South Georgia, with a contract to dismantle the island's long-abandoned whaling station. The contract was bona fide but the landing was in open defiance of all British customs and immigration requirements. When the authorities at the small settlement at Grytviken demanded they cither obtain a visa or leave, the Argentines refused and ran up the Argentine flag. Two weeks later Argentine troops successfully invaded the Falkland Islands.Thus was launched the Falklands conflict. An international crisis of major proportions loomed threateningly over the horizon and in Britain an affair that had begun for most people as a small item at the end of a workaday news summary suddenly became more than mere headlines — the world watched aghast as Britain prepared for war.Britain’s first naval campaign since the Suez ...
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