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AcquisitionsWe all know the complications of stowing everything correctly before a long cruise. Get it wrong and you're eating baked beans every meal for three weeks. Now imagine the complications multiplied a million-fold with time in very short supply. This is what faced the planners of the amphibious operation that eventually led to the recapture of the Falkland Islands in 1982. No wonder there was some confusion, bickering, and one appalling cock-up. It is all related here in great detail and in such uncompromisingly military and naval terminology that the general reader may constant referral to the endpaper maps and the nine-page glossary tedious. But the military buff will find it an absorbing, honest portrayal of modern warfare which, despite its high-tech approach, is still as bloody and as confusing as it ever was, and where "blue on blue" -- friendly fire- is nearly as great a danger as the enemy.
Michael Clapp commanded the Amphibious forces; his co-author, a Royal Marine officer, who, knowing the Falkland Islands' shores, went along as his adviser. Between them they have writtenthe definitive book on what is probably the last independent amphibious operation British forces will ever launch. ID
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