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  • Goose Green

  • The Decisive Battle of the Falklands War – by the British Troops Who Fought It
  • By: Nigel Ely
  • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
  • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (282 ratings)

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Goose Green

By: Nigel Ely
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
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Summary

As featured in the landmark BBC2 documentary Our Falklands War: A Frontline Story

Published to mark the fortieth anniversary of the Falklands war

'There was a time when we did extraordinary things.'

On 28 May 1982, 450 men of the 2nd Battalion, the Parachute Regiment—2 Para—went into action to retake the settlement of Goose Green on East Falkland, where more than 1,000 Argentine soldiers were holding 119 Falkland Islanders—men, women, children and one baby—in squalid conditions.

Forty years on, Goose Green is still the biggest and bloodiest battle the British Army has fought in modern times. This book is the living narrative of the battle told by the very men who fought it; not just the soldiers of 2 Para, but also the SAS, the Royal Navy and Merchant Navy, and others, in more than a hundred exclusive and untold personal accounts.

Some are extremely funny, some touching, and some heart-breaking. All were recorded face to face, the speakers' own words adding a gritty authenticity to each account and conveying the confusion and terror of battle, as well as the courage and selflessness of men in action. Goose Green is a book that goes beyond the official histories and the many memoirs to bring to life the first and, as it turned out, the decisive battle of this country's outstanding campaign to retake the Falkland Islands from a foreign invader.

This is a true story of a great victory against all the odds, told by the men who fought it.

©2022 Nigel Ely (P)2022 Bonnier Books UK
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Excellent

The Battle for Goose Green,in the Paras own words has it happened,word by word recalition.

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Honest and gritty

One word… Brilliant! Blood and guts ,

Really enjoyed this no holds barred, intense recollection of a famous victory enjoy!

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Superb telling of the battle story.

I laughed and cried too. Visited the cafe at goose green prior to the first lockdown. Great welcome and this happened wherever I visited. I wish I'd read this book prior to the visit to get an insight into the battle.

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Honest and utterly necessary

I listened to this book in conjunction with an incredibly moving BBC Documentary about the Falklands War that included Nigel Ely

I had friends and Shipmates who went ‘Down South’ although none of them were from 2PARA I felt I owed it to them to take some time to think about 1982

Many fine and interesting books will explain the military detail of Goose Green but only Nigel Ely has been able to convey the visceral horror of combat by broken bayonet and white phosphorus

It isn’t just another military book

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fantastic listen

an absolute gripping, heart wrenching and at times funny book. narrated brilliantly. Total respect

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Hard fought victory

As a kid the falklands war inspired me to join up and serve 12 yrs, loved all the stories and different perspectives of this hard fought war i can totally relate to all the black humour' and also the story had me in tears with the helicopter pilot meeting up with kid years later the older i get the more emotional i get didn't want the story to end

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A gripping listen

A great memoir, really good to listen to for most of it. My only real gripe is the mispronounced ranks, WO2 pronounced as w o ii, Surgeon Commander Rick Jolly pronounced as Sergeant Commander, and others. I just wish the readers would get it right. As a veteran myself it is a tad annoying to hear the ranks pronounced incorrectly.
But overall a great listen, loads of "true grit" and just sheer bloody mindness from one of our elite regiments. Even learnt a few things, rumours of confirmed.
Like one or two others mentioned in the book, I didn't get to go down there till later, but my unit 17 Port and Maritime provided the mexefloats, that ferried a lot of the stores ashore, we had stevedore detachments on each of the LSLs, one regt member got a MM for his actions on a mexefloat and another got a Mention in dispatches for lifting the live bomb off the RFA Sir Lancalot after it was made safe.
As the author says it was a war fought and supported by all three services.
Get it, listen to it and learn. Utrinque paratus but Nil Sine Labore

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Highly factual concentrating very heavily on the second company of the paratroop regiment

Would’ve been nice to have a corollary to remind us what expressions such as the GPMG meant

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Really excellent

A fantastic story of war from the perspective of multiple participants mostly in the non commissioned and ordinary joe ranks. Moving and insightful. A piece of history.

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Engrossing first hand account.

loved this, a few narrative issues but overall excellent. A bare knuckle ride through this historical battle.

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