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Lieutenant Sethia quits the navy and moves to the Caribbean. He thinks the Falklands War is behind him, but back in the UK, an eccentric, anti-war MP notices a discrepancy in the government’s account of the sinking and starts to investigate.
ABOUT THE BELGRANO DIARY
The sinking of the General Belgrano was the bloodiest and most controversial military action of the Falklands War. This is the story of a diary written onboard the British submarine that fired the torpedoes, the diary that proved Thatcher’s government hadn’t told the truth about what happened.
Read more in the LRB:
Tam Dalyell: The Sinking of the Belgrano – lrb.me/belgranoyt11
Diana Gould: After the war – lrb.me/belgranoyt12
Mary-Kay Wilmers: Margaret Thatcher – lrb.me/belgranoyt13
Edward Luttwak: Who won the Falklands War? – lrb.me/belgranoyt14
Paul Rogers: British Sea Power – lrb.me/belgranoyt15
Discover bonus material, including extended and additional interviews and clips: lrb.me/belgranoyt
Subscribe to the LRB – Get 12 issues for £12: lrb.me/youtube
ABOUT THE LRB
The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of the world’s best writers to explore a wide variety of subjects in exhilarating detail – from culture and politics to science and technology via history and philosophy. In the age of the long read, the LRB remains the pre-eminent exponent of the intellectual essay, admired around the world for its fearlessness, its range and its elegance.
As well as essays and book reviews each issue also contains poems, an exhibition review, ‘short cuts’, letters and a diary, and is available in print, online, and offline via our app. Subscribers enjoy unlimited access to almost 15,000 articles in our digital archive. Our website features a regular blog and a channel of audio and video content, including podcasts, author interviews and highlights from the events programme at the London Review Bookshop.
Lieutenant Sethia quits the navy and moves to the Caribbean. He thinks the Falklands War is behind him, but back in the UK, an eccentric, anti-war MP notices a discrepancy in the government’s account of the sinking and starts to investigate.
ABOUT THE BELGRANO DIARY
The sinking of the General Belgrano was the bloodiest and most controversial military action of the Falklands War. This is the story of a diary written onboard the British submarine that fired the torpedoes, the diary that proved Thatcher’s government hadn’t told the truth about what happened.
Read more in the LRB:
Tam Dalyell: The Sinking of the Belgrano – lrb.me/belgranoyt11
Diana Gould: After the war – lrb.me/belgranoyt12
Mary-Kay Wilmers: Margaret Thatcher – lrb.me/belgranoyt13
Edward Luttwak: Who won the Falklands War? – lrb.me/belgranoyt14
Paul Rogers: British Sea Power – lrb.me/belgranoyt15
Discover bonus material, including extended and additional interviews and clips: lrb.me/belgranoyt
Subscribe to the LRB – Get 12 issues for £12: lrb.me/youtube
ABOUT THE LRB
The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of the world’s best writers to explore a wide variety of subjects in exhilarating detail – from culture and politics to science and technology via history and philosophy. In the age of the long read, the LRB remains the pre-eminent exponent of the intellectual essay, admired around the world for its fearlessness, its range and its elegance.
As well as essays and book reviews each issue also contains poems, an exhibition review, ‘short cuts’, letters and a diary, and is available in print, online, and offline via our app. Subscribers enjoy unlimited access to almost 15,000 articles in our digital archive. Our website features a regular blog and a channel of audio and video content, including podcasts, author interviews and highlights from the events programme at the London Review Bookshop.
