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Book SynopsisIn 1982, eight young Guards officers in their twenties found themselves suddenly on the way to the Falklands 8000 miles away from Britain. Some four decades later, they realised that no one had written the history of this unique war in Britain's history from their side - including coming under Argentine fire on Sir Galahad on 8 June, the most dramatic day in Britain's military history since the second world war. Crispin Black tells their story and casts a startling new light on what happened to them, using the latest official documents. Even basic facts have remained hidden to this day.
Trade ReviewDAILY MAIL, Dominic Sandbrook ‘Haunting… you are plunged at the heart of the action.’ ;DAILY TELEGRAPH, ‘An important new book… a repository of damning facts.’ ;DAILY TELEGRAPH Letters, ‘a powerful case for a public inquiry.’ General Thompson, Admiral Larken ;THE TIMES, ‘Reveals how mistakes and prejudice led to an avoidable tragedy.’ ;ROGER ALTON, former Editor Observer and Independent, ‘Full of heroic characters, a remarkable story that has lain hidden for too long… A terrific document about war, that will be studied in staff colleges for generations to come. The top brass’s passing the buck afterwards is appalling.’ ;PHIL ROBERTS, CAPTAIN GALAHAD, Falklands ‘A weight has been lifted off my shoulders’ ; CAPTAIN ROBERT LAWRENCE, Scots Guards ‘gruesome detail, what a bunch *****s the top commanders were.’ ; MICHAEL SCOTT ‘Forensically dissects what went wrong.... his story is compelling and disturbing.’ ; MARK CORETH, Blues and Royals Troop Leader in the Falklands ‘I implore you to read this compelling and important book.’ ;GENERAL SEBASTIAN ROBERTS ‘Compelling, focused and incendiary.’ ; IAN DUNCAN SMITH, MP ‘I am delighted Crispin Black has written Too Thin for a Shroud… ensuring that those who suffered and died, fighting for the freedom of others shall not be forgotten.’ ; Amazon No 1 Falklands memoir
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. 'What dreams may come' 2. Doubts 3. 'Untune that string' 4. The Navy's Private Army 5. Mortars and All That 6. South 7. The Waiting Room, 2nd June 8. March to Nowhere 9. Towards Bluff Cove, June 4-6th 10. Eyewitness: Jan Koops 11. Exocets and All That 12. Eyewitness: Jan Koops - Port Pleasant/Fitzroy 13. 10:26am, 8th June 14. Eyewitness: Jan Koops - Air Raid Warning Red 15. Eyewitness: Hugh Boddington 16. Eyewitness: Johnny Strutt 17. 'The valiant taste of death but once.' 18. Eyewitness: Captain Koops - Upsetting An Apple Cart 19. Stirrings 20. The Southern Flank 21. The Devil in the Detail 22. 2nd June 23. Basics 24. Eyewitness 25. The New Plan: Major Guy Yeoman 26. The Death Knell 27. Shambles 28. A Sound of Revelry by Night 29. The next morning, 8th June 30. The Inquiry Board: Major Sayle 31. Squandering Half a Battalion 32. Admiral Fieldhouse 33. Fieldhouse's Fingerprints 34. General Jeremy Moore 35. A Swiss Cheese 36. Army Doctrine 37. The Darkest Day: 14th July 1982 38. Eyewitness: Captain Koops - Walk on Wales 39. Return South Postscript
