Reasons in Writing: a Commando's View of the Falklands War
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Reasons in Writing: a Commando's View of the Falklands War by Ewen Southby-Tailyour
Reasons in Writing tells Southby-Tailyour's story of the Falklands War largely through the medium of diaries and letters written during his peacetime tour of duty in the seventies and the war itself. Reasons in Writing, is unlikely to be rivalled for its immediacy, insight and deep and genuine feeling for the Islands themselves, based on experience gained (unlike any other participant civilian or service) before, during and after that fateful winter of 1982.Ewen Southby-Tailyour, a graduate of Pangbourne Nautical College and Grenoble University, joined the Royal Marines in 1960 and served with the French Commando Hubert in the south of France and Corsica, the United States Marine Corps in the Mediterranean, the West Indies, and the Dhofar War (when he was given the Sultan of Muscat's Bravery Medal) in Niger. He retired as a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1992 and joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office the following year to work as a monitor for the European Community Monitoring Mission (ECMM) in the Former Yugoslav Republic. While reporting on Croatia's preparations for war against the separatist, so-called Republic of Serbian Krajina, he was instructed informally by the Secret Intelligence Agency (MI6) to keep an watch on one or two individuals. In 1994, he resigned from the ECMM in protest at being told to falsify his daily reports in order to keep the UN Weapons Embargo 713 from being made public. Death's Sting is a novel inspired by the author's experiences in Croatia and the Republic of Serbian Krajina.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781844150144 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844150143 |
| Title | Reasons in Writing: a Commando's View of the Falklands War |
| Author | Ewen Southby-Tailyour |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2003-07-22 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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