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  • The Falkland Islands, Part 2

    The Falkland Islands, Part 2

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    Battlefield tour I am joining a battlefield tour today with the same knowledgeable chap, who we soon find out, has guided several TV crews and military experts and veterans. We are going to go up as far as San Carlos, where the troops were landed, back past Darwin, Goose Green, various memorials around those places,…

  • The Falkland Islands, Part 1

    The Falkland Islands, Part 1

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    I wasn’t sure what to expect of the Falklands. A friend inscribed in a copy of his book, ‘Falkland Islands Shores’ for me thus: ‘Please visit these beautiful islands’. That was before Argentina invaded and occupied the islands in May 1982 and the subsequent war with Britain. 43 years later and I finally get here.…