The controversial account of what really happened in the south Atlantic skies
Sharkey Ward commanded 801 Naval Air Squadron, HMS Invincible, was senior Sea Harrier adviser to the Command, flew over sixty missions and was awarded DSC. Yet had he followed all his instructions to the letter, Britain might well have lost the Falklands War.
His dramatic first-hand story of the air war in the South Atlantic is also an extraordinary, outspoken account of inter-Service rivalries, bureaucratic interference, and dangerous ignorance of the realities of air combat among many senior commanders. As Sharkey Ward reveals, the 801 pilots were fighting not just the enemy, exhaustion, and the hostile weather, but also the prejudice and ignorance of their own side.

Sea Harrier over the Falklands (Cassell Military Paperbacks)

History

Sharkey Ward

Australia & Oceania

Sterling Publishing Co.

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Very Good, A very good, clean and sound hard back copy with a very good dustjacket. Sea harrier over the Falklands: a maverick at war. 299 p., [16] p of plates : ill., map,ports ; 25cm. . Includes index. .

Sea Harrier over the Falklands: A Maverick at War

Naval Institute

Biographies & Memoirs

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