| Goose Green by Mark Adkin 19:15 - May 29 with 2614 views | Thrasher6 |
Got it off the book shelf for a re-read. Remember it being a no warts account of the serious battle that Colonel H died in. Not a gung ho exercise...just like a bit of military history. If I remember the Argies were dug in on the approaches and put up a decent fight...
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| Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 19:19 - May 29 with 2604 views | Neath_Jack |
I say it every time a Falklands post goes up, if you're into it, get 3 Days In June. The finest book on the Falklands I've ever read, and there aren't many I haven't read. |  |
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| Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 19:27 - May 29 with 2593 views | Thrasher6 |
| Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 19:19 - May 29 by Neath_Jack |
I say it every time a Falklands post goes up, if you're into it, get 3 Days In June. The finest book on the Falklands I've ever read, and there aren't many I haven't read. |
Just read an review on it on Amazon....and ordered it... thanks for the post | |
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| Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 19:44 - May 29 with 2565 views | taffpunk |
| Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 19:19 - May 29 by Neath_Jack |
I say it every time a Falklands post goes up, if you're into it, get 3 Days In June. The finest book on the Falklands I've ever read, and there aren't many I haven't read. |
Only available on Kindle unfortunately. I'm old fashioned , like to read an actual book myself, will keep a look out for it though. |  |
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| Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 19:48 - May 29 with 2561 views | Neath_Jack |
| Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 19:44 - May 29 by taffpunk |
Only available on Kindle unfortunately. I'm old fashioned , like to read an actual book myself, will keep a look out for it though. |
It's not mate, google the author, he sells it himself. | |
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| Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 19:53 - May 29 with 2546 views | Neath_Jack |
| Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 19:27 - May 29 by Thrasher6 |
Just read an review on it on Amazon....and ordered it... thanks for the post |
No problem, another couple for you if you're into military books...
Dead Men Risen - Welsh Guards in Afghanistan.
Old Soldiers Never Die by Frank Richards (Welshman) - Wonderfully written memoir about the Great War. | |
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| Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 20:09 - May 29 with 2531 views | Thrasher6 |
| Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 19:53 - May 29 by Neath_Jack |
No problem, another couple for you if you're into military books...
Dead Men Risen - Welsh Guards in Afghanistan.
Old Soldiers Never Die by Frank Richards (Welshman) - Wonderfully written memoir about the Great War. |
Got Dead Men Risen....very good, will have a butchers at the other one.. | |
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| Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 20:15 - May 29 with 2523 views | Glyn1 |
[I deleted my post because the link didn't work.] [Post edited 29 May 2020 22:35]
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| Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 20:30 - May 29 with 2511 views | longlostjack |
My memory is hazy but wasn’t Colonel H a bit controversial? I went to a Sergeant’s Mess do in Germany a couple of years later and there were “issues”. I didn’t take that much notice at the time tbh being a student civi and more interested in the food and drink. Don’t ask you ex- military boys ! Does it talk about Max Hastings and the helicopter? |  |
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| Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 21:19 - May 29 with 2487 views | theloneranger |
"Sod That for a Game of Soldiers"
The true story of four 17 year olds with 3 Para on Mt Longdon.
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| Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 21:23 - May 29 with 2481 views | Catullus |
Anyone who tries to occupy Afghanistan gets their arses kicked. The Russians are still licking their wounds. | |
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| Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 21:26 - May 29 with 2481 views | Neath_Jack |
| Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 21:19 - May 29 by theloneranger |
"Sod That for a Game of Soldiers"
The true story of four 17 year olds with 3 Para on Mt Longdon.
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I didn't think that book was much cop, he features in the book 3 Days In June.
Incredible the age of some of those Para's out there, young lads straight out of depot. | |
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| Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 22:00 - May 29 with 2457 views | controversial_jack |
| Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 21:23 - May 29 by Catullus |
Anyone who tries to occupy Afghanistan gets their arses kicked. The Russians are still licking their wounds. |
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| Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 22:53 - May 29 with 2442 views | Groo |
This book controversially indicates that the Argentines actually lost around 60 on the first day but hid the casualties.
https://www.amazon.ca/First-Casualty-Untold-Story-Falklands/dp/1980585792
Read that at Goose Green they outnumbered the Britsh by quite a few and shot a couple of Brits while under a white flag if truce due to the confusion at the time. |  |
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| Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 23:07 - May 29 with 2438 views | Dr_Winston |
| Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 21:23 - May 29 by Catullus |
Anyone who tries to occupy Afghanistan gets their arses kicked. The Russians are still licking their wounds. |
The 1842 retreat from Kabul testifies to that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1842_retreat_from_Kabul |  |
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| Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 08:47 - May 30 with 2359 views | epaul |
I joined the RN just after the Falklands, my views on it are known, saying that I talked to a lot who were down there,and got their experience, talk about an eye opener, better than any book you could read
*I'm not dismissing any book written about a real life experience btw....* [Post edited 30 May 2020 9:10]
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| Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 11:22 - May 30 with 2306 views | controversial_jack |
Weak leadership, and the British decided to cut the payments to the Afghan warlords. | | | |
| Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 18:58 - May 31 with 2196 views | howenjack |
Different theatre , different era but I 've been reading a bit about the Cretan resistance to the German invasion in 1941. Totally heroic resistance by the Cretans. There was one account of how a German parashutist was held down just after landing by a 15 year old girl while her older brother dispatched him with a garden hoe! The Cretans bravery was extraordinary but they paid a heavy price in reprisals by the German military. The Cretans' resistance tied down nearly 100,000 German soldiers on Crete who would have been deployed elsewhere.Respect to a valiant but overlooked resistance movement
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| Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 19:05 - May 31 with 2185 views | Neath_Jack |
| Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 18:58 - May 31 by howenjack |
Different theatre , different era but I 've been reading a bit about the Cretan resistance to the German invasion in 1941. Totally heroic resistance by the Cretans. There was one account of how a German parashutist was held down just after landing by a 15 year old girl while her older brother dispatched him with a garden hoe! The Cretans bravery was extraordinary but they paid a heavy price in reprisals by the German military. The Cretans' resistance tied down nearly 100,000 German soldiers on Crete who would have been deployed elsewhere.Respect to a valiant but overlooked resistance movement
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| Goose Green by Mark Adkin (n/t) on 19:20 - May 31 with 2181 views | howenjack |
| Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 19:05 - May 31 by Neath_Jack |
Name of book? |
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| Goose Green by Mark Adkin (n/t) on 19:20 - May 31 with 2180 views | howenjack |
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| Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 19:21 - May 31 with 2180 views | howenjack |
No book ,just looking on the internet at the history of the conflict. | | | |
| Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 11:33 - Jun 1 with 2124 views | controversial_jack |
These days, the British army wouldn't be able to fight it's way out of a wet paper bag.It's been reduced so much | | | |
| Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 12:52 - Jun 1 with 2094 views | Neath_Jack |
| Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 11:33 - Jun 1 by controversial_jack |
These days, the British army wouldn't be able to fight it's way out of a wet paper bag.It's been reduced so much |
I wouldn't want any other nations army protecting us.
Especially our special forces, they are the envy of the world. | |
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| Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 13:55 - Jun 1 with 2067 views | controversial_jack |
| Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 12:52 - Jun 1 by Neath_Jack |
I wouldn't want any other nations army protecting us.
Especially our special forces, they are the envy of the world. |
At small unit level we have the best, but we don't have the numbers or equipment for large conflicts. It pains me to say it, but the Yanks are miles ahead of us in counter insurgency | | | |
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