Contents

Introduction

Maps

Glossary

Prologue

PART I

A Convenient Station near Cape Horn

PART II

1 Scrap at South Georgia

2 Operacion ROSARIO

3 The Defence of Grytviken

4 The Task Force Prepares

5 Passage South

6 The Advance Guard

7 Halfway House

PART III

1 The Recapture of South Georgia

2 The Carriers Close In

3 The Argentine Preparations

4 The First Strike

5 ‘Lombardo’s Fork’

6 First Losses

7 Bad-weather Blockade

PART IV

1 ‘D’-Day

2 ‘The Battle of Clapp’s Trap’

3 The Loss of the Atlantic Conveyor

PART V

The Break-out

PART VI

1 The Siege of Stanley

2 Battles in the Mountains

3 The Last Battle

4 Aftermath

STUFT (Ships Taken Up from Trade)

Appendix I

Appendix II

Appendix III

Appendix IV

Equivalent Ranks

Sources

Index