Kidnapped by the Junta: Inside Argentina's Wars with Britain and Itself

Julian Manyon, a TV journalist, was kidnapped in Buenos Aires in 1982 and held for eight hours by the secret police. He was then invited to the Presidential Palace to film an exclusive interview with President Galtieri. Manyon discovered that his kidnapper was a key figure in the Junta's bloody struggle against left-wing opposition and that the secret documents revealed the wider picture of the turmoil inside the Junta and how Argentina acquired vital US military equipment. This book provides an extraordinary insight into the war behind the war and is a harrowing depiction of the campaign of terror that the Junta waged on its own population.

Format: Hardback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 17 March 2022
Publisher: Icon Books

Fascinating... if this gripping account teaches anything, it is the folly of tyrannical regimes believing they can act with the same violence and impunity abroad as they do at home.

The Spectator

Heart-thumpingly powerful... history told from the closest and most frightening quarters.

SINCLAIR MCKAY, author of The Secret Life of Bletchley Park

Forty years on from the outbreak of the war, acclaimed TV journalist Julian Manyon digs down into Argentina's Dirty War and its effect on the Falklands conflict.

On May 12th, 1982, after the first bloody exchanges of the Falklands War, journalist Julian Manyon and his TV crew were kidnapped on the streets of Buenos Aires and put through a traumatic mock execution by the secret police. Less than eight hours later, they were invited to the Presidential Palace to film a world-exclusive interview with an apologetic President Galtieri, the dictator and head of the Argentine Junta.

Spurred on by the recent release of declassified CIA documents about Argentina's Dirty War, Manyon discovered that his kidnapper was a key figure in the Junta's bloody struggle against left-wing opposition, with a terrifying record of torture and murder. Also in the secret documents were details of the wider picture - the turmoil inside the Junta as the war with Britain got under way, and how Argentina succeeded in acquiring vital US military equipment which made its war effort possible.

Published on the 40th anniversary of the Falklands conflict, this book is an extraordinary insight into the war behind the war. Manyon provides a harrowing depiction of the campaign of terror that the Junta waged on its own population, and a new perspective on an episode of history more often centred on Mrs Thatcher, the Belgrano, and the battle of.

Weight: 566g
Dimension: 317 x 164 x 37 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781785788529