Scope of Book: The book shows how, 28,000 British men and women moved 8,000 miles to fight on a tiny relic of Britain’s imperial past. They argue that the operation was under the guise that this was what the Falklanders wanted and that under UN mandate for self-determination of peoples, the British were justified. It is a narrative history that accounts for British political decision making and the naval and military operations to secure the islands again as a British protectorate. Hasting covered the war for the London Standard and then interviewed returnees Jenkins, political editor of The Economist, covered the war’s political beat and the prior diplomatic-ups-and-downs.Ĭentral Thesis: The book is the story of what the authors called “almost certainly the last colonial war that Britain will ever fight. Hastings was embedded with the British task force sent to re-take the islands while Jenkins was covering events in London. Overview: A sweeping narrative history on the political and military pieces that make up the Battle of the Falklands. He once was editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph. Simon Jenkins is another journalist and editor who has also written a plethora of works on everything from history and politics to architecture in England. Norton and Company, 1983)īiography: Hastings is a British journalist and military historian who has written extensively on conflicts around the world. Max Hastings and Simon Jenkins, The Battle for the Falklands(New York: W.W.
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