The Sinking of the Belgrano (by Desmond Rice and Arthur Gavshon)

• 1984 edition, 209 pages
• Published by Secker & Warburg London
• Hardcover, black boards with dust jacket
• Good condition, minor age wear, some fading to dust jacket, binding sound, minor tanning.

2 maps and 7 black and white photos.  The Falklands War began in earnest at one minute past four on 2nd May 1982.  Two Mark 8 torpedoes from the British nuclear submarine Conqueror sank the Argentinian cruiser General Belgrano with the loss of 368 lives.  Was the sinking of the Belgrano justified?   Desmond Rice and Arthur Gavshon have drawn from sources, public and secret, in Britain, Argentina, Peru and the United States, in order to assemble the true story of what happened on the day the Belgrano sank.  The result is an enthralling book which stands as an indictment of the ruthlessness and miscalculations - British and Argentinian - which led to an unnecessary tragedy with devastating consequences.