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 islanders who had direct personal experience of this
extraordinary crisis in their history. That is why the previously
unpublished diaries of Neville Bennett and his wife Valerie, a
fireman and a nurse who lived with their two daughters in Port
Stanley throughout the war, is such vivid and revealing reading. As
chief fireman Neville was frequently called out to deal with fires
and other incidents during the occupation, and each day he recorded
what happened and what he thought about it in his sharp and
forthright way. Valerie saw a different side of the occupation
through her work at the Stanley hospital where she had to handle
the Argentines as well as daily accidents and emergencies. Their
joint record of the exceptional circumstances in the Falklands in
April, May and June 1982 gives us a fascinating inside view of
family life during the occupation and of their relations with the
Argentine soldiers and commanders. It is engrossing reading.
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