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Razor's Edge - The Unofficial History of the Falklands War (Hardcover)
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Razor's Edge - The Unofficial History of the Falklands War (Hardcover)
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For five years before the Falklands War, Hugh Bicheno was one of
the top British spies in Argentina. As such, he gathered hard,
corroborated intelligence on Argentine intentions over the
Falklands - which the British establishment then chose to ignore.
The reasons behind this British decision, and its disastrous and
inevitable consequences in the South Atlantic, are the main story
of this book. There were three main players in the war, each of
them trying to overcome their own cultural baggage. The
Argentinians were riddled with guilt: after years of fighting a
morally repugnant campaign against its own people, the Argentine
military saw a war for the Malvinas islands as a perfect
opportunity to win back their self-respect. The hands of the
Americans were also bloody from the likewise dirty wars they had
sponsored and abetted in Central America, involving first Argentine
and later British mercenaries (and as a former mercenary in Central
America, the author has first-hand knowledge of this too). For
Britain, baffled by the parlous state of the country at the
beginning of the 1980s, the defence of the Falklands was a gesture
towards their long-gone imperial splendour. The incredible fact
that they did not make a mess of it, like they had done with so
much, is one of the central themes of the book.
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