Ebook: Signals from the Falklands

As John Winton, the best and most authoritative writer on currant naval matters, says in the foreword to this book 'The Navy has never been well known for its flair for publicity ... Again and again during the Falklands War it seemed to me that the chances of giving the Navy a 'chuck-up' were being fumbled ... so when the ships began to come home I let it be known that I was going to compile a book on the Navy's part in the Falklands'. The response was overwhelming and this, sadly, is is only a skimming from the cream of the response to his appeals Nevertheless it gives, without a doubt, as vivid.;Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Editor's Preface; Glossary; Diary of Principal Events; LEAVING FOR THE SOUTH ATLANTIC, from HMS Invincible The Falklands Deployment 2nd April-17 September, 1992; LETTERS TO SUSIE: by C.P.O Arthur Gould, HMS Arrow; ENDURANCE'S WAR Letter of Fleet C.P.O. Geoffrey Cox of 13 JUNE, 1983; 'YOU'VE GOT TO GET ON, JOHN': THE RESCUE OF THE SAS FROM SOUTH GEORGIA and THE ATTACK ON THE SUBMARINE Santa Fe. Extracts from a diary kept by Lt C.J. Parry, RN, HMS Antrim, 2 April-June, 1982.