Carlisle Barracks: US Army War College, 1997. — 39 p. The 1982 war in the Falkland Islands and surrounding waters in the South Atlantic Ocean marked dramatic changes in the contemporary world. By any reckoning, it was a war that should never have been fought. It was a war unlike any other war in the twentieth century, and since 1945 it was the first war to erupt outside the...
Carlisle Barracks: US Army War College, 1985. — 30 p. On 2 April 1982, Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, an archipelago located about 400 miles off the Argentine coast. The surprise attack brought to a climax 140 years of controversy between Argentina and Great Britain over the sovereignty of the islands. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher responded quickly to the Argentine...
Oxford: Osprey Publishing Ltd, 2002. — 95 p. — (Essential Histories). — ISBN 1 84176 422 1. The Argentine invasion of the Falklands in 1982 sparked national outrage and Britain felt she had to avenge the humiliation and protect her own. This volume explores both the military and political dimensions of this important conflict, including detailed accounts of the air / sea...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 255 p. Many military accounts of the British side of the Falklands War have been published as well as memoirs written by servicemen who took part, so this aspect of the story of the Argentine occupation and the British liberation of this remote territory in the South Atlantic is well known. But little attention has been paid to the Falkland...
First published. — South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2003. — 259 p. — ISBN: 9781783379682. For many people it was 3 Commando Brigade, commanded by Major General Julian Thompson, and made up of Royal Marines and Para's that recaptured the Falklands. Yet 5th Infantry Brigade played a key and until now little acknowledged role in this extraordinary saga. Cobbled together in...
Pen and Sword Publishing, 2007. — 243 p. The Hundred Days that saw the British response to General Galtiere of Argentina’s invasion of the Falklands are for many British people the most remarkable of their lives. There will be massive revival of interest in this period in 2007 and this book covers all the main events of that momentous time. It describes the dark days of early...
Harper Press, 2012. — 153 p. This gripping first-hand account of the Falklands War, written by bestselling military historian Patrick Bishop and Sunday Times Editor John Witherow, reveals the true experiences of the British soldiers and seamen on the front line. The authors, then rookie reporters, lived alongside the fighting men, experiencing the daily realities of a British...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. — 264 p. The Falklands War of 1982 was a small war, but one with large resonances. The Argentine invasion of the one of the few remaining British colonies on 2 April might have been prevented by a more coherent British foreign policy, better intelligence analysis, and military precautions; and once the crisis began, it could have possibly ended by...
Guild Publishing, 1987. — 404 p. Excellent synopsis of the Falklands War of 1982. Brown goes into great detail on the naval aspects of the conflict. He weaves the land battle seamlessly into the narrative. The use of British terminology and idioms can be confusing to the American reader but not overly so. I would have liked to see a better use of maps throughout the book to...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2007. — 300 p. Since he was in charge of the amphibious operations in the Falklands War, it goes without saying that there is no one better qualified to tell the story of that aspect of the campaign than Commodore Michael Clapp. Here he describes, with considerable candor, some of the problems met in a Royal Navy racing to war and finding it necessary to...
Routledge, 2023. — 270 p. First published in 1985, The Falklands War was the first comprehensive work of its kind. The book brings together a wealth of work by scholars and practitioners in the fields of diplomacy, military affairs, and international politics and law. It provides a comprehensive and objective overview of the Falklands War and the underlying crisis that...
Coronet Books, 1982. — 214 p. Britain's first naval campaign since the Suez Crisis of 1956 concerns the sovereignty of the Falkland Isles —200 windswept islands set 8,000 miles away in the South Atlantic. Here is the full authoritative account: the historical background, the Argentine invasion of April 2nd, the launch of the British task force and the retaking of South Georgia,...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 224 p. In May 1982, Captain Roger Field, The Blues and Royals, attached to HQ 5th Infantry Brigade, sailed on the Queen Elizabeth 2 as part of the second wave to liberate the Falkland Islands. Surprised by what he saw at Brigade HQ he started writing a diary. His journey took him to Fitzroy as the Argentinean aircraft struck the landing ships Sir...
London: Routledge, 2005. — 250 p. Drawing on a vast range of previously classified government archives as well as interviews with key participants, this first volume of the official history of the Falklands Campaign is the most authoritative account of the origins of the 1982 war. In the first chapters the author analyzes the long history of the dispute between Argentina and...
London: Routledge, 2005. — 812 p. In this official history of the Falklands Campaign, Lawrence Freedman provides a detailed and authoritative account of one of the most extraordinary periods in recent British political history and a vivid portrayal of a government at war. After the shock of the Argentine invasion of the Falklands in April 1982, Margaret Thatcher faced the crisis...
Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1984. — 238 p. On May 2, 1982, the British submarine HMS Conqueror sunk the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano. It remains one of the most controversial incidents in naval history. The event, which resulted in the loss of over 300 lives, sparked heated debates regarding the legality and proportionality of the attack.
Second impression. — London: Michael Joseph, 1983. — 372 p. — ISBN 0 7181 2228 3. This is the story of a freak of history, almost certainly the last colonial war that Britain will ever fight. So extraordinary an event was it that, even after men began to die, many of those taking part felt as if they had been swept away into fantasy, that the ships sinking and the guns firing...
Pan Publishing, 2010. — 508 p. — (Pan Military Classics). — ISBN: 033051363X; ISBN13: 9780330513630. The Falklands War was one of the strangest in British history - 28,000 men sent to fight for a tiny relic of empire 8,000 miles from home. At the time, many Britons saw it as a tragic absurdity, but the British victory confirmed the quality of British arms and boosted the...
The History Press, 2011. — 224 p. In 1982, 8,000 miles from home, in a harsh environment and without the newest and most sophisticated equipment, the numerically inferior British Task Force defeated the Argentinian forces occupying the Falkland Islands and recaptured this far-flung outpost of what was once an empire. It was a much-needed triumph for Margaret Thatcher's...
Casemate Publishers, 2012. — 256 p. HMS Glamorgan was in the thick of the fighting throughout the war. Her role for most of the time was that of an expendable escort and she became the only ship to survive an Exocet hit. Incorporating vivid firsthand accounts and illustrated with photographs, the book also portrays the daily life of an escort under wartime conditions and describes...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012. — 290 p. Rick Jolly was the Senior Medical Officer in the Falklands, setting up and running the field hospital at Ajax Bay, where he and his Royal Marine and Parachute Regiment medical teams treated a total of 580 casualties, of which only 3 died of wounds. The building itself was a derelict meat-packing factory, hastily converted to treat incoming...
Warszawa: Altair, 1993. — 53 s. Książka polskiego badacza Krzysztofa Kubiaka „Falklandy” z serii „Największe bitwy XX wieku” poświęcona jest konfliktowi brytyjsko-argentyńskiemu z 1982 roku o Falklandy lub Malwiny na południowym Atlantyku. Autor przedstawia w zwartej formie antologię sporu o Falklandy w okresie kolonialnym, a także w XIX wieku. i XX w., siły stron w przededniu...
Buenos Aires: Editado por el Archivo General de la Nación, 2001. — 29 p. Descripcion del conflico de Malvinas entre el Reino Unido y Argentina en 1982. Incluye reproducción de documentos y fotos.
Fort Leavenworth: Army Operational Studies Fellowship School of Advanced Military Studies, 1987. — 47 p. This monograph analyzes the 1982 war between the United Kingdom and Argentina over possession of the Falklands in regard to several of the foundations of military theory. It uses this recent campaign which combines air, land, and sea forces armed with modern technologies as...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 271 p. Why did Britain and Argentina go to war over a wintry archipelago that was home to an unprofitable colony? Could the Falklands War, in fact, have been a last-ditch revival of Britain's imperial past? Despite widespread conjecture about the imperial dimensions of the Falklands War, this is the first history of the conflict from the...
Pen and Sword, 2012. — 321 p. Martin Middlebrook is the only British historian to have been granted open access to the Argentines who planned and fought the Falklands War. It ranks with Liddell Hart's The Other Side of the Hill in analyzing and understanding the military thinking and strategies of Britain's sometime enemy, and is essential reading for all who wish to understand...
Pen and Sword Military, 2014. — 430 p. With the sudden Argentine invasion of the remote Falkland Islands on 2 April 1982 the United Kingdom found itself at war. Due to the resolve of a determined Prime Minister and the resourcefulness of the Armed Forces, a Task Force, code named Operation CORPORATE, was quickly dispatched. Remarkably just over two months later, the Islands...
Pen and Sword Military, 2019. — 239 p. On 1 April 1982 Major Mike Norman, commander of Naval Party 8901, was looking forward to a peaceful yearlong tour of duty on the Falkland Islands. But events turned out differently, for the next day the Argentinians invaded and he and his small Royal Marines garrison found themselves fighting for their lives. They took up defensive...
NY: Blandford Press, 1984. — 152 p. The Falkland Islands were in more ways than one a testing ground. For most of the British forces involved the Falklands Conflict was the first taste of real battle: the Royal Marines and the Paratroopers who took part had been battle-hardened in the towns and villages of Northern Ireland, but the Royal Navy and the R.A.F. had been involved in...
Pen and Sword Military, 2014. — 271 p. While many books have been written on the Falklands War, this is the first to focus on the vital aspect of logistics. The challenges were huge; the lack of preparation time; the urgency; the huge distances involved; the need to requisition ships from trade to name but four. After a brief discussion of events leading to Argentina’s invasion...
Monterey: Institute for Joint Warfare Analysis, 2000. — 26 p. The Marine Corps has proposed that the complementary concepts of Operational Maneuver From The Sea (OMFTS) and Ship To Objective Maneuver (STOM) lay the foundation for how they would like to fight in the future. Both concepts call for Marine amphibious operations to originate from ships over the horizon and to...
Air World, 2021. — 375 p. From the television footage shown in all its stark reality and the daily coverage and subsequent memoirs, the impression delivered from the air battles in the Falklands Conflict was that of heroic Argentine pilots who relentlessly pressed home their attacks against the British. While, by contrast, there is a counter-narrative that portrayed the Sea...
Routledge, 2023. — 221 p. — (Wars and Battles of the World). After four decades from the 1982 war between Britain and Argentina over possession of the Falklands/Malvinas islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, this book allows for a new and rounded reading of the causes, course and consequences of the war. It provides a comprehensive overview of the Falkland/Malvinas War by...
Pen and Sword Books, 2008. — 288 p. A new edition of the classic Falklands War memoir "which many regard as the most perceptive description of the momentous events of April to June 1982. Major General Julian Thompson first wrote this account (previously published as No Picnic) when what happened in the spring and summer of 1982 was fresh in his mind. As Commander of 3 Commando...
Routledge, 2021. — 198 p. Contains analyses of the war by several prominent U.S. experts on national security affairs. Their observations reflect the continuing debate on such key issues in U.S. defence planning - and in Soviet defence planning as well - as the controversy over large versus small carriers, the advantages and dis advantages of a diesel-versus nuclear-powered...
Bethesda: US Army Concepts Analysis Agency, 1986. — 111 p. The Falklands Wargame was conducted for the purposes of developing a maritime capability in the Contingency Force Analysis Wargame (CFAW) Model and comparing wargame results with history. During the conduct of wargame excursions, logistic constraint was used to increase realism and to provide an additional control...
Bethesda: US Army Concepts Analysis Agency, 1982. — 34 p. Listed are the significant events which occurred each day, from March 19 to June 15, 1982, in the British-Argentine war for possession of the Falkland Islands.
Pen and Sword, 1995. — 256 p. The book is an anthology of personal record of what it was like to serve in the South Atlantic, written by the men and women who were there, with a linking commentary by the author. It will cover, mainly in personal reminiscences, the story from the sailing of the Task Force to the "Happy Return" home. As John Winton, the best and most...
Pen and Sword Military, 2009. — 210 p. This is the true untold story of the Falklands War (1982) as experienced by a below-decks seaman on one of the most important ships to be dispatched to the South Atlantic. It is a no-holds-barred account as seen through the eyes of a Royal Navy matelot.
Penguin Random House, 2011. — 208 p. A través del análisis de documentos reservados, Yofre elabora una serie de conclusiones que cambian la perspectiva que se tenía acerca de la guerra de Malvinas, sus causas y sus consecuencias. El libro revela la guerra y sus laberintos políticos y diplomáticos como jamás se habían mostrado, a través del análisis de la totalidad de los...
A Monograph. — Fort Leavenworth: School of Advanced Military Studies United States Army Command and General Staff College, 2010. — 59 p. This monograph addresses the Malvinas/Falklands conflict from the Argentine perspective. Leaders must understand each side of narratives in order to frame the right problem in armed conflicts. Existing Anglo-American literature does not reflect...
Пер. с англ. А. Колина. — М.: Эксмо, 2014. — 704 с. — (Современные войны). — ISBN 978-5-699-70564-1. 28 000 британских солдат отправились воевать за реликтовый обломок Империи в забытом Богом уголке мира в 15 000 км от дома. Иные погибли, другие навсегда остались калеками, а Фолклендские (Мальвинские) острова остались в составе Великобритании. Таков был итог короткой...
Пер. с англ. А. Колина. — М.: Эксмо, 2014. — 704 с. — (Современные войны). — ISBN 978-5-699-70564-1. 28 000 британских солдат отправились воевать за реликтовый обломок Империи в забытом Богом уголке мира в 15 000 км от дома. Иные погибли, другие навсегда остались калеками, а Фолклендские (Мальвинские) острова остались в составе Великобритании. Таков был итог короткой...
Пер. с англ. А. Колина. — М.: Эксмо, 2014. — 704 с. — (Современные войны). — ISBN 978-5-699-70564-1. 28 000 британских солдат отправились воевать за реликтовый обломок Империи в забытом Богом уголке мира в 15 000 км от дома. Иные погибли, другие навсегда остались калеками, а Фолклендские (Мальвинские) острова остались в составе Великобритании. Таков был итог короткой...
Пер. с англ. А. Колина. — М.: Эксмо, 2014. — 704 с. — (Современные войны). — ISBN 978-5-699-70564-1. 28 000 британских солдат отправились воевать за реликтовый обломок Империи в забытом Богом уголке мира в 15 000 км от дома. Иные погибли, другие навсегда остались калеками, а Фолклендские (Мальвинские) острова остались в составе Великобритании. Таков был итог короткой...
Ridero, 2022. — 696 с. — ISBN 978-5-0056-4283-7. Ровно сорок лет назад внимание военных специалистов и мировой общественности оказалось приковано к Южной Атлантике, где с апреля по июнь 1982 года развернулось вооруженное противостояние между Аргентиной и Великобританией в борьбе за Фолклендские (Мальвинские) острова. В книге освещаются события Англо-аргентинского конфликта 1982...
М.: Международные отношения, 1985. — 96 с. — (Библиотечка международника). В брошюре рассматриваются ход и результаты военной авантюры Великобритании, связанной с захватом нескольких островов, расположенных в Атлантическом океане за тысячи миль от ее берегов. Показаны расстановка сил на мировой арене и обнажившиеся во время военного конфликта межимпериалистические противоречия,...
Киев: Румб, 2007. — 416 с. — (Необъявленные войны). — ISBN: 966-96521-6-2. Ровно двадцать пять лет назад, весной 1982 года, внимание всего мира оказалось прикованным к Фолклендским островам. В течение 74 дней Аргентина, страна, претендующая на лидерство в Южной Америке, и одна из ведущих мировых держав - Великобритания, жертвуя человеческими жизнями и тратя миллиарды долларов,...
Монография. — Киев: Румб, 2007. — 416 с. — (Необъявленные войны). — ISBN: 966-96521-6-2. Ровно двадцать пять лет назад, весной 1982 года, внимание всего мира оказалось прикованным к Фолклендским островам. В течение 74 дней Аргентина, страна, претендующая на лидерство в Южной Америке, и одна из ведущих мировых держав - Великобритания, жертвуя человеческими жизнями и тратя...
Киев: Румб, 2007. — 416 с. — (Необъявленные войны). — ISBN: 966-96521-6-2. Ровно двадцать пять лет назад, весной 1982 года, внимание всего мира оказалось прикованным к Фолклендским островам. В течение 74 дней Аргентина, страна, претендующая на лидерство в Южной Америке, и одна из ведущих мировых держав - Великобритания, жертвуя человеческими жизнями и тратя миллиарды долларов,...
Киев: Румб, 2007. — 416 с. — (Необъявленные войны). — ISBN: 966-96521-6-2. Ровно двадцать пять лет назад, весной 1982 года, внимание всего мира оказалось прикованным к Фолклендским островам. В течение 74 дней Аргентина, страна, претендующая на лидерство в Южной Америке, и одна из ведущих мировых держав - Великобритания, жертвуя человеческими жизнями и тратя миллиарды долларов,...
М.: Эксмо, 2014. — 704 с. — (Современные войны). — ISBN: 978-5-699-70564-1. 28 000 британских солдат отправились воевать за реликтовый обломок Империи в забытом Богом уголке мира в 15 000 км от дома. Иные погибли, другие навсегда остались калеками, а Фолклендские (Мальвинские) острова остались в составе Великобритании. Таков был итог короткой англо-аргентинской войны в апреле...
Пер. с англ. А. Колина. — М.: Эксмо, 2014. — 704 с. — (Современные войны). — ISBN: 978-5-699-70564-1. 28 000 британских солдат отправились воевать за реликтовый обломок Империи в забытом Богом уголке мира в 15 000 км от дома. Иные погибли, другие навсегда остались калеками, а Фолклендские (Мальвинские) острова остались в составе Великобритании. Таков был итог короткой...
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