The Franks Report: Falkland Islands Review - Softcover

Franks, Lord

Softcover

ISBN 10: 071269840X ISBN 13: 9780712698405

Publisher: Pimlico, 1992

Synopsis

The Franks Report is a unique document from an unimpeachable source. No British official publication this century has disclosed so much so soon of that forbidden realm where the security classification is king: the process of foreign and defence policy-making and the working of the intelligence community.

Lord Franks was asked to review the British handling of the Falklands crisis up to the moment of national humiliation - the Argentine invasion of the Islands in 1982. The subject of fierce controversy when it was first published, The Franks Report is a continuing revelation. It is also that rarest of things in official documents - a good read.

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About the Author

Lord Franks was born in 1905 and educated at Bristol Grammar School and the Queen's College, Oxford. He taught philosophy at Oxford (1927-37) and was Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow (1937-45). He was Provost of the Queen's College, Oxford (1946-48), Provost of Worcester College, Oxford (1962-76) and Chancellor of East Anglia University (1965-84). He was British Ambassador at Washington from 1948 to 1952. He has been Director of Lloyd's Bank and of Schroders and was Chairman of the Friends' Provident & Century Life Office. He has served on several government committees and is an Honorary Fellow of a number of Oxford colleges and of the London Business School. He was created Baron Franks of Headington in 1962.

Alex Danchev is Professor of International Relations at Keele University. He has held Fellowships in the Department of War Studies, King's College, London; the Woodrow Wilson Centre in Washington DC and St Antony's College, Oxford. He is the editor of International Perspectives on the Falklands Conflict and the author of Founding Father, a biographical study of Lord Franks.

Synopsis

On 6th July 1982, Margaret Thatcher announced that the British government had decided to appoint a Committee of Privy Counsellors, under the chairmanship of Lord Franks, to review the way in which the responsibilities of the British government in relation to the Falkland Islands and their dependencies were discharged in the period leading up to the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands on 2nd April 1982. The report was also to take account of all such factors in previous years as were relevant to the government's actions during war. This book provides an account of the report which is broken down into four sections: an account of the dispute between the UK and Argentine from 1965 to 1978; an account of the events and the development of policy under the Thatcher government; an account of events from the landing of a party of Argentine scrap merchants on South Georgia in March 1982 and on the invasion in April 1982; and the judgements of the committee on the aforementioned events.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pimlico
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 071269840X
• ISBN 13: 9780712698405
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136