January 3, 2013

  • Going Back

    The book I am reviewing in this post is Going Back by Simon Weston which is an excellent book which I bought from a secondhand bookstore. Simon Weston is a bit of a celebrity in Britain. He was on board the Sir Galahad during the Falklands War & when it was bombed he received horrific burns & half his skin was burnt away. He has written a book previous to this about the horrible incident & the terrible time he had coming to terms with it. He very nearly died. This book is about him returning to the Falklands & meeting the pilot who bombed the Sir Galahad in a bid to come to terms with what happened. Incidently now he is married to a beautiful young lady and has a son. This book is dated 1992 so hasn't got the most upto date information on the Falklands. They made a BBC television programme about him doing what is in the book. One thing it does say is that Galtieri shot himself in the foot invading the Falklands because the islands almost certainly would have been given to Argentina a few years on. Simon does very much think it was a just war. He does also say he and the argentine pilot could have argued all day about the rights and wrongs of the war. He had a few questions for the pilot whose name was Carlos & did make it clear he didn't go there to upset him. He did also tour around the various monuments on the Falklands & the battlefields. At the end of the book he does say a lot of the anger about what happened has dissipated.

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