Nick van der Bijl
Autor(a) de Argentine Forces in the Falklands
About the Author
Obras por Nick van der Bijl
British Military Operations in Aden and Radfan: 100 Years of British Colonial Rule (2014) 10 exemplares
Argentine Perspectives on the Falklands War: The Recovery and Loss of Las Malvinas (2022) 3 exemplares
Nueve Batallas en Malvinas 1 exemplar
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Bijl, Nick van der
- Nome legal
- Bijl, Nicholas van der
- Data de nascimento
- ukjent
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Ocupações
- soldier
- Organizações
- British Army
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Críticas
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 21
- Membros
- 286
- Popularidade
- #81,618
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 5
- ISBN
- 49
It is amazing how 'their outrages' are balanced by 'our understandable over reaction'. British soldiers bad behaviour is both 'understood' and buried. One unpopular figure is charged with breaking army rules but the Geneva Convention is quietly forgotten: it isn't there to judge Allied activities, only the 'enemy's'.
Thousands of people, mostly African, but including colonists, died - and for what? The belief that white men were superior to black; that increased efficiency of land use was the be all and end all of philosophy and that Christianity must prevail, if not by conviction, then by the gun.
The most depressing thing... what has changed?… (mais)