<p><b>'Excellent' <i>Financial Times</i><br>'Stirring, impressively detailed' <i>Time </i>magazine<br><br><i>The Battle for the Falklands</i> is a thoughtful and informed analysis of an astonishing chapter in modern British history from journalist and military historian Sir Max Hastings and political editor Simon Jenkins.</b><br><br>Ten weeks. 28,000 soldiers. 8,000 miles from home.<br><br>The Falklands War in 1982 was one of the strangest in British history. At the time, many Britons saw it as a tragic absurdity - thousands of men sent overseas for a tiny relic of empire - but the British victory over the Argentinians not only confirmed the quality of British arms but also boosted the political fortunes of Thatcher's Conservative government. However, it left a chequered aftermath and was later overshadowed by the two Gulf wars.<br><br>Max Hastings’
