TOO FEW TOO FAR

A few years ago it was my good fortune to meet George Thomsen - he's a former Royal Marine and a larger than life Northumbrian. We became friends and I learned with growing fascination that George had been more than a little involved in the 1982 South Atlantic War. He began to tell me of his experiences both before and during the bitter conflict and soon my interest became riveted by his fascinating and untold story.

What I was hearing about was not an account of the struggle which took place on the Falkland Islands, but of a remote and desperate battle, played out against the backdrop of the rusty, derelict town of Grytvicken on the frozen shores of South Georgia.

It is a story that begins with George's arrival on the Falkland Islands nearly twelve months before the start of hostilities, and ends eight hundred miles south-west in an extraordinary contest between 22 lightly armed British Royal Marines against the might of an air and water-borne Argentine invasion force.

The battle that ensued was fought with such grit and ingenuity that it resulted in the invaders getting far more than a bloody nose, and resulted in an action unique in British military history.
TOO FEW TOO FAR is George Thomsen's true story.  ISBN 9781848687554

'A wonderfully exciting book, elegantly written by Angel, whose taught, descriptive prose does justice to a tale of bravery' Bournemouth Echo

'Revealed: the untold story of 22 brave Marines in the run up to the Falklands War' The Daily Mail

'No Surrender: How 22 Royal Marines saw off Argentine invaders' The Daily Telegraph

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