The British Political Parties and the Falklands War

• Main Author: Bruni, Domenico Maria (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: History, Modern.; Great Britain-History.; World politics.; Great Britain-Politics and government.; Latin America-History.; Modern History.; History of Britain and Ireland.; Political History.; British Politics.; Latin American History.

This book explores and reconstructs how the principal parliamentary parties in Britain confronted and responded to events that unfolded during the Falklands War in the spring of 1982. The author begins by situating the Falklands Crisis within the wider context of the breakup of the British Empire an...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Prologue
• 2 The Falklands Issue Before the War
• 3 The Conservative Party
• 4 The Labour Party
• 5 The Alliance
• 6 Conclusions.