I generally like Mr Winchesters writing so I was rather disappointed by this book. The subject suggested a very interesting tale but, unfortunately, it was not developed very well at all. The first 50 pages or so are straight narrative recounting the background of Winchester's arrival in Argentina, in general, and the Falklands in particular. This part is fine but then the rest of the book is given over to a lengthy series of journal entries. This type of writing is, to my mind, not the best way to tell a story and that is especially so here. We get lengthy details about things that were of some import and significance to Winchester at the time but which, in objective hindsight, add nothing to the story. I also found his inclusion of the full text of letters he received to be tedious. I suppose he was trying to show how letters from strangers affected his outlook but one or two would have been plenty; all the rest, including those from his wife were completely uninteresting and I stopped reading them quite early on. All in all, it would have been a much better story had Winchester continued with the same narrative style with which he began the book and included a lot more information relating to the military and political situation rather than wasting space with a lot of personal and pointless detail.
