A Falkland Islander s Wartime Journal

Graham Bound was born in the Falklands, and returned there to see for himself the profound ways in which his homeland has changed. He considers what islanders have gained and lost, the challenges they face and why they may soon be at the centre of another South Atlantic crisis.

Surviving the Siege. This detailed, intimate and often visceral account of the Falklands invasion, occupation and war is based on the journals of Graham Bound, the then editor of the Falklands only newspaper. Very few other books about the Falklands war consider the siege of Port Stanley, where Bound was trapped with a few hundred other islanders. The small town was heavily garrisoned by the occupying Argentines and came under constant land, sea and air attack by the British. Bounds eye-witness record was a originally scribbled in notebooks and on whatever scraps of paper he could find as he sheltered in the besieged capital. The journals