With 3 Para to the Falklands
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Publisher Description
A veteran of the Falklands conflict vividly recounts the actions of his elite parachute regiment in this Cold War military history.
On Friday, April 9, 1982, a British task force set sail for the Falkland Islands. Three months later, after a short but brutal campaign, it had successfully ejected the Argentinean occupying forces. With 3 Para to the Falklands is the full story of that dramatic struggle from the point of view of a sergeant in the Third Battalion, Parachute Regiment (3 Para).
This elite battle group played a significant part in the campaign, marching from Port San Carlos to Port Stanley and fighting in one of its most crucial, yet often-neglected battles—the night assault on Mount Longdon. Graham Colbeck’s vivid account reveals the stark realities harsh conditions of this stubbornly contested conflict.
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It's been 20 years since the British made quick work of Argentinean forces in the Falklands. In time for the anniversary comes With 3 Para to the Falklands, a memoir of the campaign by Graham Colbeck, then a sergeant in the 3rd Parachute Regiment. Colbeck recall his every advance and battle in careful detail, and also discusses his training for the parachute regiment and some of his earlier assignments, like peacekeeping in Belfast. Patriotic but generally unsentimental, Colbeck, now retired, doesn't shrink from conveying the brutality of the Falklands engagement, but also argues for an expanded post-Cold War British military.
