Don't Cry for Me, Sergeant-Major: A unique portrait of the Falklands war - from the sharp end

By Robert McGowan and Jeremy Hands

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0708823904
• ISBN13: 9780708823903
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Little Brown Paperbacks (a&C)
• Length: 317 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

the lighter side of the falklands war

A very funny look at the falklands war from the british point of view .While hilarious it is still a factual depiction of the many of the unknown aspects of the little war .The section on the ghurkas is particularly enjoyable as when the british soldiers told the argie prisonners that the ghurkas were cannibals !!!!!

Stirring Stuff Commendable Journalism on the Falklands War

The authors, Robert McGowan and Jeremy Hands are a pair of newpaper journalists who hitch a ride on HMS Canberra on the way to the Falkland Islands war. Their shipmates are assorted British squaddies from some of Britain's finest regiments.. McGowan and Hands vividly catch the buzz of the expedition and tangibly capture the sights, sounds and smells of the battlefield in all its unsanitary, brutal and often vainglorious theatre. The impression the book leaves is that the British soldier remains one of the finest, bravest and best trained that there is. Little wonder that they made short work of the invading Argentine troops.