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By Anthony Barnett

'I had the winter at the back of my mind. The winter. What will the winter do? The wind, the cold. Down in South Georgia the ice, what will it do? It beat Napoleon at Moscow.'

Margaret Thatcher, Daily Express, 26 July 1982

"Iron Britannia: Why Parliament waged its Falklands War" was published in November 1982. By the beginning of next week the whole book will be on this website. Please forward this address to anyone you feel will be interested to know about it.

Meanwhile, you can find the two key chapters referred to in an article I have written for openDemocracy on the 25th anniversary of the launch of the war. They are on the parliamentary debate that set Britain on course for war, and on Churchillism, the unique political culture that lay behind the debate. I hope you enjoy them. Any comments are welcome and at the moment should be posted in the comment section after the article. If you want to email me directly you are welcome to do so, put "FAO Anthony Barnett" in the subject line and send it to theo.edwards@opendemocracy.net
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