A Better War Than Most

<p>In the style of Lee Jackson and Herman Wouk here is the shocking war that exploded onto headlines around the world.</p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-center><strong>Argentina vs. Great Britain</strong></p><p class=ql-align-center><br></p><p>April1982: a furious 10-week war of national pride fought with missiles and high tech weaponry but ultimately won by men on the ground willing to die for victory.  Three lives hang in the balance.</p><p> </p><p>Jenny a Falkland Islander watches helplessly as 13000 Argentine soldiers invade her homeland and turn it into a war zone.  Should she risk her own life and the lives of her husband Grant and their six-year-old son Darrell by staying in Stanley during the final siege for the islands?</p><p><br></p><p>Reynaldo an 18-year-old Argentine soldier finds love but is suddenly thrust into the line of fire.   Along with his best friends Sonny and Jury he must face the vastly superior British forces that cannot be stopped.  Will any of them survive?</p><p><br></p><p>Mike an American journalist writing for a London newspaper sails south with the British troops never realizing he is actually heading into a war.  The bloodshed he will become part of is unlike anything he has ever experienced.  Will he live long enough to tell his own truth amid the heroics and sacrifices he witnesses?</p><p><br></p><p>These three people one from Argentina one from Great Britain and one from the Falkland Islands are caught in the war and changed forever.</p><p><br></p><p><em>A Better War Than Most</em> brings this war vividly to life: the sinking of the <em>General Belgrano</em> with the loss of 368 Argentine lives the fatal missile attack on <em>HMS</em> <em>Sheffield</em> the horror of Bomb Alley the siege of Goose Green the tragic Fitzroy Disaster and the bloody battle for Wireless Ridge.  </p><p><br></p><p>The British crossed 8000 miles of ocean to launch the greatest amphibious assault since World War II.  Few believed Britain could win this war with just two carriers no land bases and only 20 Harrier jets to face 200 Argentine planes.  It was a fight to the death for those who survived and those who didn't.</p>