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 analyses the long history of
the dispute between Argentina and Britain over the sovereignty of
the Islands, the difficulties faced by successive governments in
finding a way to reconcile the opposed interests of the Argentines
and the islanders, and the constant struggle to keep the Islands
viable. He subsequently gives a complete account of how what
started as an apparently trivial incident over an illegal landing
by scrap-metal merchants on the island of South Georgia turned into
a major crisis. Thanks to his access to classified material, Sir
Lawrence Freedman has been able to produce a detailed and
authoritative analysis which extends the coverage given by the
Franks Committee Report of 1983.
This volume is ultimately an extremely readable account of these
events, charting the growing realisation within the British
government of the seriousness of the situation, culminating in the
Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands at the start of April
1982.
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