History Today, August 1st, 1996
Picton Publishing 160 pp. 29.50 [pounds]
In the three centuries since 1690, when they were first claimed for Britain and named after the then Treasurer of the Navy, Lord Falkland, those wind-and-rain-swept islands in the South Atlantic have claimed a place in British political and military affairs out of all proportion to their limited economic significance. Most of the history written about them has served to put them in their strategic context. Now, indirectly as a result of the 1982 Falklands War with Argentina, we have two books of quite another kind about the islands' history.
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