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The Belgrano affair reaches its climax as the stories of Narendra Sethia and Clive Ponting connect. The two whistleblowers appear in court and the diary makes its final journey.
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: Ponting Bites Back – lrb.me/belgranoyt26
Tam Dalyell: The Ponting Affair – lrb.me/belgranoyt27
E.P. Thompson: Subduing the jury – lrb.me/belgranoyt28
Colm Tóibín: Borges – lrb.me/belgranoyt29
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.
The Belgrano affair reaches its climax as the stories of Narendra Sethia and Clive Ponting connect. The two whistleblowers appear in court and the diary makes its final journey.
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: Ponting Bites Back – lrb.me/belgranoyt26
Tam Dalyell: The Ponting Affair – lrb.me/belgranoyt27
E.P. Thompson: Subduing the jury – lrb.me/belgranoyt28
Colm Tóibín: Borges – lrb.me/belgranoyt29
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.
