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In the early hours of 21 May 1982, the 2nd Battalion the Parachute Regiment -- 2 Para -- came ashore at San Carlos in the Falkland Islands. Eight days later the outnumbered battalion had seized the settlements at Darwin and Goose Green from the Argentines; sixteen days after that they were the first British troops into Port Stanley. Those bald facts conceal an extraordinary tale of courage and endurance. The war on land in the Falklands was a soldier's war. This is a soldier's story, written from first-hand accounts and the battalion's written records, with the support and cooperation of the officers and men, and illustrated with many of their own photographs. It is a true story of a famous battalion preparing for, and going to war, and of how it fared in that war, telling not only of heroism, skill, sacrifice, discipline, but also of fear, humour, loneliness, sorrow, humanity -- the ordinary emotions of individuals who, collectively, form the living body of a battalion.

 

Two sections of 68 black and white photographs. Six maps. Contents in Eight Chapters: Voyage South, The Move Ashore, Preparing For Action, Darwin and Goose Green, Victory -- and After, Fitzroy and Bluff Cove, Wireless Ridge and Stanley, and The End Of It All. Plus Six Appendices: Roll of Honour, Citation -- The Victoria Cross, Honours and Awards, Major Keeble's Ultimatum, The Brigade Log -- Goose Green, and Message to 2 Para from the CGS.

 

Used hardcover with dust cover, slight wear but in good condition.