Too Thin for a Shroud

GIBSON SQUAREISBN: 9781783342297

8 June 1982, Falklands: Britain's Most Lethal Day of Combat since World War II

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By Crispin Black
Imprint: GIBSON SQUARE
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HARDBACK
Pages:
192

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Crispin Black served as platoon commander of the Welsh Guards in the Falklands and survived the bombing of the HMS Sir Galahad. He was moved to Northern Ireland and Germany before joining the Ministry of Defence as COBRA intelligence liaison. A Colonel, he is a Fellow of Chatham House and has written for The Times, Guardian and Telegraph and commented on intelligence on the BBC, Channel 4, Sky and ITV.


Introduction



1. What dreams may come



2. Doubts



3. Untune that string



4. The Navys Private Army



5. Mortars and All That



6. South



7. The Waiting Room, 2nd June



8. March to Nowhere



9. Towards Bluff Cove, June 4-6th



10. Eyewitness: Jan Koops



11. Exocets and All That



12. Eyewitness: Jan Koops - Port Pleasant/Fitzroy



13. 10:26am, 8th June



14. Eyewitness: Jan Koops - Air Raid Warning Red



15. Eyewitness: Hugh Boddington



16. Eyewitness: Johnny Strutt



17. The valiant taste of death but once.



18. Eyewitness: Captain Koops - Upsetting An Apple Cart



19. Stirrings



20. The Southern Flank



21. The Devil in the Detail



22. 2nd June



23. Basics



24. Eyewitness



25. The New Plan: Major Guy Yeoman



26. The Death Knell



27. Shambles



28. A Sound of Revelry by Night



29. The next morning, 8th June



30. The Inquiry Board: Major Sayle



31. Squandering Half a Battalion



32. Admiral Fieldhouse



33. Fieldhouses Fingerprints



34. General Jeremy Moore



35. A Swiss Cheese



36. Army Doctrine



37. The Darkest Day: 14th July 1982



38. Eyewitness: Captain Koops - Walk on Wales



39. Return South



Postscript


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