With 3 Para to the Falklands

April 1, 2002
It's been 20 years since the British made quick work of Argentinean forces in the Falklands. In time for the anniversary comes With 3 Para to the Falklands, a memoir of the campaign by Graham Colbeck, then a sergeant in the 3rd Parachute Regiment. Colbeck recall his every advance and battle in careful detail, and also discusses his training for the parachute regiment and some of his earlier assignments, like peacekeeping in Belfast. Patriotic but generally unsentimental, Colbeck, now retired, doesn't shrink from conveying the brutality of the Falklands engagement, but also argues for an expanded post-Cold War British military.