The Fight for the Malvinas: The Argentine Forces in the Falklands War
by Martin Middlebrook
Pen and Sword Military Classics
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Martin Middlebrook is the only British historian to have been granted open access to the Argentines who planned and fought the Falklands War. It ranks with Liddell Hart's The Other Side of the Hill in analyzing and understanding the military thinking and strategies of Britain's sometime enemy, and is essential reading for all who wish to understand the workings of military minds.The author has managed to avoid becoming involved in the issue of sovereignty and concentrates entirely upon the show more military story. He has produced a genuine 'first' with this balanced and unique work. Among the men he me show lessTags
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Martin Middlebrook has written many other books that deal with important turning-point in the two world wars, including The First Day on the Somme, The Kaiser's Battle, The Peeneminde Raid, The Somme Battlefields (with Mary Middlebrook), The Nuremberg Raid 30-31st March 1944 and Arnhem 1944 (all republished and in print with Pen and Sword).
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Common Knowledge
- People/Characters
- Jorge Anaya; Leopoldo Galtieri; Alfredo Astiz
- Important places
- Argentina; Atlantic Ocean; Falkland Islands; Latin America; South America; South Atlantic Ocean
- Important events
- Falklands War (1982-04-02 | 1982-06-14)
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 997.11 — History & geography Oceania & Polar Regions Atlantic Ocean islands Falkland Islands, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, Bouvet Island Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
- LCC
- F3031.5 .M474 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America Latin America. Spanish America South America Falkland Islands
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 7
- ASINs
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