The Falklands/Malvinas Conflict: Forty Years On
Edited by Louise Clare
Jonathan discusses the new Edited Collection from Routledge:
"This unprecedented collection of essays commemorating the Falklands Conflict of 1982 includes papers from an international conference at the University of Manchester in 2019. Speakers from the UK, the Falkland Islands and Argentina included veterans, journalists, historians and academics, all with their own unique insights, recollections and interpretations of the events that took place in the South Atlantic Ocean in the spring of 1982, and which continue to resonate to the present day. There are contributions here from Michael Clapp and Julian Thompson, from Louise Clare on the representation of America’s diplomatic involvement, from Andrea Bellot on the media images of the islanders themselves, from Dair Farrar-Hockley, John Crosland, David Cooper and Philip Neame of the Parachute Regiment, and from me on the depictions of navy veterans and survivors, and the evocation of the Second World War in the televisual treatment of the war at sea. The conflict seemed barely believable at the time, and it’s incredible now to think that it was over 40 years ago. If you weren’t around then, or even if you were, there’s (still) a lot to understand."