Green-Eyed Boys: 3 Para and the Battle for Mount Longdon - Hardcover

Jennings, Christian; Weale, Adrian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0002555905 ISBN 13: 9780002555906

Verlag: HarperCollins, 1996

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In The Green-Eyed Boys: 3 Para and the Battle for Mount Longdon, Christian Jennings, and Adrian Wearle give the fullest account yet – based on hundreds of interviews – of this extraordinary and controversial events which culminated in the bloodiest and most ferocious battle fought by the British Army since the Korean war.

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In the 3rd Battalion of the Parachute regiment (3 Para) the "green-eyed boys" are the soldiers who have submerged themselves entirely into the Regiment's cult of machismo. For them, after years of peace enlivened only by the cruel frustration of Northern Ireland, the Falklands War was an opportunity to pit themselves against a real enemy. Many of them consider the assault through the Argentinian position in Mount Longdon to have been the highest point in their lives - and they took every opportunity to enjoy it to the full. Ironically, in fulfilling their violent fantasies the "green-eyed boys" brought both glory and dishonour on the battalion.

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• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0002555905
• ISBN 13: 9780002555906
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288