Reasons in Writing: A Commando s View of the Falklands War
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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Contents
Chapter One A Wild Call
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Chapter Two A Clear Call
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Chapter Three The Gulls Way
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Chapter Four Backing and Filling
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Chapter Five The Whales Way
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57 |
Chapter Six Homeward Bound
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83 |
Chapter Seven North by East
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Chapter Eight Invasion
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100 |
Chapter Fifteen The Wheels Kick
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230 |
Chapter Sixteen Advance
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245 |
Chapter Seventeen A Settlement Too Far
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Chapter Eighteen A Bloody War and a Sickly Season
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284 |
Chapter Nineteen Victory
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312 |
Chapter Twenty When the Long Tricks Over
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321 |
Chapter Twenty One Ask Me One On Beaches
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336 |
Chapter Twenty Two Wives and Sweethearts
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Chapter Nine Outward Bound
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121 |
Chapter Ten Ascension For Orders
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Chapter Eleven Doldrums
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Chapter Twelve The Whetted Knife
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166 |
Chapter Thirteen On the Beach
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188 |
Chapter Fourteen A Willing Foe and Searoom
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Reasons in Writing: A Commando's View of the Falklands War Ewen Southby-Tailyour Limited preview - 1990 |
Common terms and phrases
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