num_pages: 544
description: Jimmy Burns was the only full-time British foreign correspondent to remain in Argentina covering the Falklands War. In "The Land That Lost Its Heroes", he gives a detailed account of the military planning of the invasion, revealing not only the hidden motives and nature of Argentina's military regime, but also the pitifully inadequate reactions of both British diplomacy and intelligence. Exposing the international intrigue and covert military operations of the war, Burns gets behind enemy lines to give a unique insight into Argentina's occupation of the Falkland Islands and the dramatic collapse of the regime. The subsequent secret missile programme linked Buenos Aires to Baghdad and Tripoli, and Burns shows how close this came to scuppering the rebuilding of democratic Argentina's relationship with the US and the UK.
language: English
title: The Land That Lost Its Heroes: How Argentina Lost the Falklands War
titlecomplete: The Land That Lost Its Heroes: How Argentina Lost the Falklands War
genres: History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 37
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Somerset Maugham Award
publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC