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Featured battle : Mount Tumbledown & Wireless Ridge
Part of Falklands War
Date : 13 June 1982 - 14 June 1982
British forces attacked and took key highland locations on the approach to Port Stanley. While 2nd Btn. Parachute Rgt took Wireless Ridge, the Scots Guards fought hard with Argentine Marines before taking Tumbledown. After this, Stanley was untenable and the Argentine commander surrendered all forces on the islands to the British, ending the war.
Featured image :
Fleet support vessels, RFA Sir Galahad, Sir Bedivere and Sir Tristram
Round Table class Landing Ship Logistics and Falklands War veterans. In June 1982, the Sir Tristram and Sir Galahad were damaged off Fitzroy, with the loss of 48 Welsh Guards and crew on Galahad. Sir Tristram was towed back to the UK and refitted, Sir Galahad was sunk as a war grave (this picture is the replacement from 1988). Sir Bedivere was lightly damaged in San Carlos Water by a bomb dropped from an Argentine Skyhawk, but returned home in November 1982 carrying the bodies of many of those service personnel who'd fallen in the conflict.
Gallery updated : 2022-04-04 08:33:43
Featured review :
Battle on the Seven Seas
Gary Staff
Here we have a good read, a narrative of the German cruiser battles 1914-1918, with lots of quotes from the people who were there. Battle locations are world wide from the Pacific to the Black Sea with both global strategy and engagement tactics described. The account of the battle of Jutland, Skagerrak to the Germans, with its focus on the cruisers, is refreshingly different to the usual version of events. Also there are some excellent photographs of the warships including some uncommon ones showing battle damage.
Three things stop this book from being excellent. The first is my very regular complaint about maps. There is an absence of scales on most of the many maps [28 maps only 2 with scales], and a few with too much information which is confusing. However, the six maps which cover the phases of the battle of Jutland are most helpful.
The second is an absence of any detailed description of the ships involved, and I had to turn to my Jane’s Fighting ships of WW1 to get a real understanding of the comparative worth of opposing vessels. A drawing and a specification of each class of cruiser would have been of great help to the general reader. And lastly a glossary of technical terms and abbreviations used, including translations of the many German terms, would have been more than helpful. The addition of these things to the 232 pages would not have made the book unmanageable.
In spite of those criticisms I still think this is a book well worth reading by anyone with an interest in World War One at sea.
Pen & Sword MARITIME, 2018
Reviewed : 2018-10-02 08:58:17
