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No Picnic: 3 Commando Brigade in the South Atlantic, 1982 (Cassell Military Paperbacks)

No Picnic: 3 Commando Brigade in the South Atlantic, 1982 (Cassell Military Paperbacks)

by JulianThompson (Author)

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    Paperback 2001

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    Hardcover 1985

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Synopsis

Written by one of the senior commanders of the Falklands campaign. Drawing on British and Argentinean sources. Already a classic account of the conflict, this will appeal to all those interested in the Falklands Campaign.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 192
 Edition: New
 Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 08 Feb 2001
ISBN 10: 0304356476
ISBN 13: 9780304356478
Book Overview: No Picnic was the first major account of the conflict to come from one of the senior fighting participants of the Falklands War, and the first to draw on both British and Argentinean sources. This book includes important insights into the difficulties and frustrations of command. Difficulties not eased by the knowledge that the operation being attempted was balanced on a knife-edge between triumph and disaster, knowledge that could not be shared. Few, if any, of the public knew that informed military opinion in the United States regarded the Falklands operation as 'mission impossible'. Some British army and Air Force officers were opposed to the operation because they thought it would fail. The fighting on land was crucial to success: navies can lose wars, but only land forces can win them. As Julian Thompson makes plain in this book, the lions share of the fighting on land fell to 3 Commando Brigade. This is their story.

Author Bio
Julian Thompson was born in Calcutta and joined the Royal Marines a month after his eighteenth birthday. He was commanding 3 Commando Brigade when they carried out the initial landings to repossess the Falkland Islands. He is a graduate of the British Army Staff College and of the Royal College of the Defence Studies. Now retired, Julian Thompson devotes a great deal of time to the study and writing of military history.