It has been forty years since the Falklands, a conflict fought between April and June 1982 and which claimed the lives of 649 Argentines, 255 British service ... Falklands War: When Britain's ...

How the BBC reported the 1982 Falklands ... ‘British troops’ and ‘Argentine troops’ instead of ‘our boys’ and ‘the enemy’. The BBC, she said, exaggerated the views of left-wing ...

By Harold Briley for MercoPress (London) – The 40th anniversary of the Falklands ... and all other British territories in the South Atlantic to be part of Argentina. The war reversed UK policy.

Whatever your opinion on the moral rights and wrongs of the Falklands War ... The resulting war would see British and Argentinian forces involved in the biggest naval conflict staged since ...

The documents released today also show Thatcher was concerned by Gibraltar's security during the Falklands War. The prime minister ordered reinforcements ... but the view of those who believed a ...

Falklands War veteran Simon Weston has expressed both excitement and concern over major oil discoveries in the British territory, warning of potential challenges from those seeking to contest ...

Nick Holden said returning home from the Falklands war ... but bitter war, lasting 72 days, under Margaret Thatcher's government. Some 655 Argentine and 255 British servicemen died, as did three ...

Giorgio and Irfon struck up an unlikely friendship as prisoner of war and guard On a ship ... They'd been mobilised to travel to the Falklands as part of the British task force.

2, ordered the occupation of the Falklands. The British government under then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher responded by ordering a task force to retake the islands, triggering a 72-day war that ...

They reveal how a British diplomat in South ... In the end, Nott’s visit to the Falklands passed off without incident. Defeat in the 74-day war spelled the beginning of the end for the military ...

Extremists in the Argentine military planned to avenge their country’s defeat by abducting John Nott while on a visit to the islands Argentine fanatics plotted to kidnap British defence ...