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Reasons in Writing: a Commando's View of the Falklands War - Softcover

Southby-Tailyour, Ewen

 
9781844150144: Reasons in Writing: a Commando's View of the Falklands War

Synopsis

Reasons in Writing tells Southby-Tailyour's story of the Falklands War largely through the medium of diaries and letters written during his peacetime tour of duty in the seventies and the war itself. Reasons in Writing, is unlikely to be rivalled for its immediacy, insight and deep and genuine feeling for the Islands themselves, based on experience gained (unlike any other participant civilian or service) before, during and after that fateful winter of 1982.

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Reasons In Writing is A Commando s gripping memoir of the 1982 Falklands War. The book begins by describing Ewen Southby-Tailyour s life in the elite Special Forces before the conflict and then plunges author - and reader - into the immediacy of war itself. --Naval & Military Press

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Southby-Tailyour, a Royal Marine, charted the waters around the Falkland Islands before the Argentinian invasion in 1982. Armed with his local knowledge, he advised the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and led all major amphibious landings during the Falklands Islands conflict. This military memoir offers his perspective on the war. B&w historical a

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9780850523102: Reasons in Writing: A Commando's View of the Falklands War

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ISBN 10:  0850523109 ISBN 13:  9780850523102
Publisher: Leo Cooper, 1993
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