Dying for the Malvinas
Isabel Hilton, 3 March 1988
The Land that Lost its Heroes: Argentina, the Falklands and Alfonsin
by Jimmy Burns.
Bloomsbury, 287 pp., £5.95, November 1987,0 7475 0111 4 Show More
by Jimmy Burns.
Bloomsbury, 287 pp., £5.95, November 1987,
Falklands: The Secret Plot
by Oscar Raul Cardoso, Ricardo Kirschbaum and Eduardo van der Kooy, translated by Bernard Ethell.
Preston, 327 pp., £12, November 1987,1 870615 05 0 Show More
by Oscar Raul Cardoso, Ricardo Kirschbaum and Eduardo van der Kooy, translated by Bernard Ethell.
Preston, 327 pp., £12, November 1987,
“... There was a junior minister in General Galtieri’s government who, in April 1982, made one of the few perceptive remarks to be made by government ministers on either side of the strange little war that was then being fought. After a brief visit to the newly recovered Malvinas, he said: ‘Every Argentine seems prepared to die for the Malvinas, but none would wish to live there ... ”
