A Falkland Islander's Wartime Journal: Surviving the Siege

Port Stanley was the tiny capital of a British colony known to few beyond the world of stamp collecting. But then, suddenly, in April 1982, it was the place—name on everyone’s lips. The outcome of a war, for which Britain had mobilized its most powerful task force since 1945, would be decided by the flag which flew over the corrugated iron and timber cottages of Stanley. The town became the epicenter of a ferocious conflict.

Many islanders left the town following the invasion. But a few hund...