Description
Object description
Photocopy of an excellent illustrated ts memoir (230pp written ca 1990), including extracts from his diary, of his service as a sergeant with the 3rd Battalion Parachute Regiment en route, in HMT CANBERRA (April - May 1982), to, and in the Falklands (May - June 1982), giving extremely good analyses of his motives, emotions, attitudes, morale and psyche, and the effect on them of the approach and experience of combat, airing thoughts on the enemy, the action of surrendering, survival, being wounded/maimed/killed, and being a professional soldier, with good descriptions of the landing and consolidation of positions at San Carlos, the action to take Mount Longdon (12 - 13 June), conditions in the trenches and on the march, and the scenes in Port Stanley after the Argentinian collapse, the whole showing a welter of esprit de corps, intelligence and balance; together with a printed minefield trace, Port Stanley (12 July 1982) and photocopies of ts intelligence and information summaries (March - April 1982 7pp) issued by the 3rd Battalion Parachute Regiment.
Content description
Photocopy of an excellent illustrated ts memoir (230pp written ca 1990), including extracts from his diary, of his service as a sergeant with the 3rd Battalion Parachute Regiment en route, in HMT CANBERRA (April - May 1982), to, and in the Falklands (May - June 1982), giving extremely good analyses of his motives, emotions, attitudes, morale and psyche, and the effect on them of the approach and experience of combat, airing thoughts on the enemy, the action of surrendering, survival, being wounded/maimed/killed, and being a professional soldier, with good descriptions of the landing and consolidation of positions at San Carlos, the action to take Mount Longdon (12 - 13 June), conditions in the trenches and on the march, and the scenes in Port Stanley after the Argentinian collapse, the whole showing a welter of esprit de corps, intelligence and balance; together with a printed minefield trace, Port Stanley (12 July 1982) and photocopies of ts intelligence and information summaries (March - April 1982 7pp) issued by the 3rd Battalion Parachute Regiment.
History note
Cataloguer PHR
History note
Catalogue date 1992-03