The History of the South Atlantic Conflict: The War for the Malvinas Review

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(More customer reviews)A glaring gap exists in the historical coverage of the Falklands War. That gap is due to the British monopoly in the writing of this war's history. The reader picks up Moro's book hoping and expecting to find a welcome new perspective, that of Argentina. The hopeful reader is destined to be disappointed, as the book is beset by severe deficiencies that render its value as negligible. The major flaw of this work is its credibility. The accounts presented are an obvious mixture of fact and fantasy that result in even the accurate narrations being cast in doubt. Wild claims of the aircraft carrier HMS Invincible being bombed and severely damaged are a good example, as are claims for British aircraft downed in fantastic numbers. Argentine forces are portrayed as heroic and effective to the extent that the uninformed is liable to believe that Argentina won the war. The reader is left frustrated, as it seems that the British accounts must be tainted with a lack of objectivity on occasion. Ruben Moro, however, does little but thicken the fog of uncertainty. Another disturbing flaw is the style in which the book is written. It is devoid of any objective and academic character, and is consumed by emotive and partisan rhetoric. At times the reader is impressed that he is reading an official history of the Galtieri Junta, published by the Ministry of Information of the time. History is yet to be graced by a serious and dependable Argentinian perspective of this war.

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This work presents the Argentinian side of the battle for the Malvinas (Falklands). Commodore Moro, who took part in the operations on the Argentine side flying C-130s, later headed the Rattenbach Commission. This work points out the facts and circumstances that put Great Britain and Argentina on a collision course and treats the political and diplomatic aspects of the war as well as the day-by-day militay operations in the South Atlantic. The work also presents the interaction of political and military events in modern conflict and an analysis of weapon systems in a modern war.