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.
Description
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