At first sight, the title suggested to me the naval battle of the first World War in which Graf von Spee and his ships were sunk as a revenge for their earlier annihilation of a British squadron at Coronel. But no, this is about the mini-war to which Margaret Thatcher committed her country after the Argentinian dictator, General Galtieri, had rather recklessly occupied the islands - mainly, it seems, in an effort to drum up popular support for his regime and distract attention from internal problems. It was one of the strangest conflicts in which Britain had ever been involved, fought eight thousand miles from home and involving a force of 20,000 men and a whole invasion fleet. The outcome is well known by now, and this book, while no doubt a sound account of the fighting, involuntarily proves that few things are more distant in public memory than the recent past.