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The Rest Is History

172. The Falklands War: Afterlife (Part 4)

The Rest Is History

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4.626.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In the final part of our Falklands series, Tom and Dominic discuss the legacy of the war in both the UK and Argentina, and debate whether the nostalgic sentiment stirred by Britain’s victory laid the foundations for Brexit. If you enjoyed this series and want a deeper dive into the Falklands War, featuring interviews with some the key players like special forces commandos, politicians and military leaders, download the first episode of BATTLEGROUND: THE FALKLANDS WAR here. Producer: Dom Johnson Exec Producers: Jack Davenport & Tony Pastor Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Email: restishistorypod@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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266 Argentine military advisors have been withdrawn from Central America.

1:09.0

Thank you. Yours in the Democratic struggle, FDR, the revolutionary democratic front of El Salvador.

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1:26.8

You did! So Dominic, I got that of course from your brilliant book,

1:31.8

who dares wins with its climactic account of the Falklands War.

1:36.0

The first three episodes we've looked at the causes of the war, early stages, and in the final episode we looked at the British land victory.

1:46.4

The surrender of Port Stanley.

1:48.8

What is the impact of this back in Britain? Presumably for Mrs Thatcher, it's, I mean, it's, you know, all her

1:57.6

Christmases come at once.

1:59.2

It is, it's absolutely colossal. Whether it's transformative is a different question but it

2:05.5

definitely has well so Dominic on that I'm just gonna say for the listeners that we

2:09.6

have we have quite a lot of questions about the overall legacy.

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