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Goose Green by Mark Adkin 19:15 - May 29 with 2618 viewsThrasher6

Got it off the book shelf for a re-read. Remember it being a no warts account of the serious battle that Colonel H died in. Not a gung ho exercise...just like a bit of military history. If I remember the Argies were dug in on the approaches and put up a decent fight...


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Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 19:19 - May 29 with 2608 viewsNeath_Jack

I say it every time a Falklands post goes up, if you're into it, get 3 Days In June. The finest book on the Falklands I've ever read, and there aren't many I haven't read.

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Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 19:27 - May 29 with 2597 viewsThrasher6

Just read an review on it on Amazon....and ordered it... thanks for the post

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Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 19:44 - May 29 with 2569 viewstaffpunk

Only available on Kindle unfortunately. I'm old fashioned , like to read an actual book myself, will keep a look out for it though.

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Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 19:48 - May 29 with 2565 viewsNeath_Jack

It's not mate, google the author, he sells it himself.

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Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 19:53 - May 29 with 2550 viewsNeath_Jack

No problem, another couple for you if you're into military books...

Dead Men Risen - Welsh Guards in Afghanistan.
Old Soldiers Never Die by Frank Richards (Welshman) - Wonderfully written memoir about the Great War.

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Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 20:09 - May 29 with 2535 viewsThrasher6

Got Dead Men Risen....very good, will have a butchers at the other one..

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Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 20:15 - May 29 with 2527 viewsGlyn1

[I deleted my post because the link didn't work.]
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Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 20:30 - May 29 with 2515 viewslonglostjack

My memory is hazy but wasn’t Colonel H a bit controversial? I went to a Sergeant’s Mess do in Germany a couple of years later and there were “issues”. I didn’t take that much notice at the time tbh being a student civi and more interested in the food and drink. Don’t ask you ex- military boys ! Does it talk about Max Hastings and the helicopter?

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Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 20:42 - May 29 with 2506 viewscontroversial_jack

Here's one with a difference, Shows how in reality, we had out arses kicked

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Losing-Small-Wars-Military-Afghanistan/dp/0300182740
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Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 21:19 - May 29 with 2491 viewstheloneranger

"Sod That for a Game of Soldiers"

The true story of four 17 year olds with 3 Para on Mt Longdon.




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Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 21:23 - May 29 with 2485 viewsCatullus

Anyone who tries to occupy Afghanistan gets their arses kicked. The Russians are still licking their wounds.

Just my opinion, but WTF do I know anyway?
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Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 21:26 - May 29 with 2485 viewsNeath_Jack

I didn't think that book was much cop, he features in the book 3 Days In June.

Incredible the age of some of those Para's out there, young lads straight out of depot.

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Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 22:00 - May 29 with 2461 viewscontroversial_jack

It's also about Iraq
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Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 22:53 - May 29 with 2446 viewsGroo

This book controversially indicates that the Argentines actually lost around 60 on the first day but hid the casualties.

https://www.amazon.ca/First-Casualty-Untold-Story-Falklands/dp/1980585792

Read that at Goose Green they outnumbered the Britsh by quite a few and shot a couple of Brits while under a white flag if truce due to the confusion at the time.

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Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 23:07 - May 29 with 2442 viewsDr_Winston

The 1842 retreat from Kabul testifies to that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1842_retreat_from_Kabul

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Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 08:47 - May 30 with 2363 viewsepaul

I joined the RN just after the Falklands, my views on it are known, saying that I talked to a lot who were down there,and got their experience, talk about an eye opener, better than any book you could read


*I'm not dismissing any book written about a real life experience btw....*
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Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 11:22 - May 30 with 2310 viewscontroversial_jack

Weak leadership, and the British decided to cut the payments to the Afghan warlords.
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Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 18:58 - May 31 with 2200 viewshowenjack

Different theatre , different era but I 've been reading a bit about the Cretan resistance to the German invasion in 1941. Totally heroic resistance by the Cretans. There was one account of how a German parashutist was held down just after landing by a 15 year old girl while her older brother dispatched him with a garden hoe! The Cretans bravery was extraordinary but they paid a heavy price in reprisals by the German military. The Cretans' resistance tied down nearly 100,000 German soldiers on Crete who would have been deployed elsewhere.Respect to a valiant but overlooked resistance movement
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Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 19:05 - May 31 with 2189 viewsNeath_Jack

Name of book?

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Goose Green by Mark Adkin (n/t) on 19:20 - May 31 with 2185 viewshowenjack

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Goose Green by Mark Adkin (n/t) on 19:20 - May 31 with 2184 viewshowenjack

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Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 19:21 - May 31 with 2184 viewshowenjack

No book ,just looking on the internet at the history of the conflict.
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Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 11:33 - Jun 1 with 2128 viewscontroversial_jack

These days, the British army wouldn't be able to fight it's way out of a wet paper bag.It's been reduced so much
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Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 12:52 - Jun 1 with 2098 viewsNeath_Jack

I wouldn't want any other nations army protecting us.

Especially our special forces, they are the envy of the world.

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Goose Green by Mark Adkin on 13:55 - Jun 1 with 2071 viewscontroversial_jack

At small unit level we have the best, but we don't have the numbers or equipment for large conflicts. It pains me to say it, but the Yanks are miles ahead of us in counter insurgency
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