Fight for Falklands Freedom: Reporting Live from Argentina and the Islands Briley Harold
Fight for Falklands Freedom: Reporting Live from Argentina and the Islands Briley Harold The world was told about the Falkland Islands invasion by radio, the shocking news sweeping across the globe.…
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Fight for Falklands Freedom: Reporting Live from Argentina and the Islands Briley Harold
The world was told about the Falkland Islands invasion by radio, the shocking news sweeping across the globe. Harold Briley was the BBC 'radio man' in Buenos Aires. Historian and war correspondent Sir Max Hastings, reporting from the Falkland Islands front-line, called it 'the Radio Man's War' because it had a wider and quicker global reach.
Previously the Falkland Islands were virtually unknown, but after Argentina invaded, and Britain reacted sending a Task Force 8,000 miles to liberate the Islanders, they made the front pages overnight. He broke the story on the BBC World Service and brought the Falklands saga to life. Harold Briley recounts the tumultuous events of the time, from his unique eyewitness standpoint, as the man on the ground in Argentina.
This gripping book both recounts events and explains the attitude of the Falkland Islands before and since the conflict, and the