Iron Britannia

On April 2 1982 Argentine forces seized the British-dependent Falkland Islands. Within 48 hours a British task force was sailing for the South Atlantic. One in five Britons opposed this war; but Argentina's surrender 74 days later set Margaret Thatcher on course for her second election victory.Anthony Barnett's Iron Britannia, first published in 1982, turned down the din of war and diagnosed somet...