Goose Green was the first land battle of the Falklands War. It was also the longest, the hardest-fought, the most controversial and the most important to win. What began as a raid became a vicious, 14-hour infantry struggle, in which 2 Para - outnumbered, exhausted, forced to attack across open ground in full daylight, and with inadequate fire support - lost their commanding officer, and almost lost the action. This is the only full-length, detailed account of this crucial battle. Drawing on the eye-witness accounts of both British and Argentinian soldiers who fought at Goose Green, and their commanders' narratives, it has become the definitive account of most important and controversial land battle of the Falklands War. A compelling story of men engaged in a battle that hung in the balance for hours, in which Colonel 'H' Jones' solo charge against an entrenched enemy won him a posthumous V.C., and which for both sides was a gruelling and often terrifying encounter.
- ISBN10 0304354961
- ISBN13 9780304354962
- Publish Date 6 July 2000 (first published 28 May 1992)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 May 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Cassell Military
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 256
- Language English