[lit-ideas] Re: Britain & the Falklands

  • From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:23:02 -0800

I read Hastings.

If--and here I may be guilty of not paying close attention to what JLS argued-- the assertion you want to refute is that British forces let mercenaries do the fighting for them, you don't need to read the book. I think this is a pretty accurate account of Goose Green.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Goose_Green

David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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