The Falklands Factor XMAS NR and military officials - with

and military officials - with the island's residents caught between them

Middlesbrough On This Day brings together decades of research by Tosh Warwick

and as rivalries intensified in the early twentieth century

it's not just his livelihood that's on the line

The Falklands Factor XMAS NR and military officials - withAfter the failure of Britains latest air defence destroyers in the 1982 Falklands War, a public controversy began over an alternative: The S90 Short Fat frigate designed and proposed by Peter Thornycroft and David Giles. This is the almost incredible but well documented story of the authors 40 year long hard fought battle with naval authorities and governments on both sides of the Atlantic, to prove the virtues of his designs which they had rejected