FACING THE BITTER LAST STAND

摘要

Being in combat for the first time on an enemy-occupied island, 8,000 miles from home would be intimidating for any soldier. Add an order to be a decoy and draw fire from an entrenched opposition into the mix and you are into the stuff of nightmares. But Steve Duffy, who in 1982 was a guardsman in the recce platoon of 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards, had never been more awake. And as the tracer fire lit up the pitch black of the hostile Falklands landscape, the lethal reality of his situation hit home.