![]() ![]() Now Mike Rossiter - with unprecedented access to sailors from the Belgrano and HMS Conqueror - gives us a dramatic and definitive retelling of the events that led up to the sinking. For many it signalled Britain's entry into the war and it has been seen as a politically motivated decision deliberately designed to take the country irrevocably into the fight. The sinking of the Belgrano was one of the most dramatic moments of the Falklands conflict. ![]() In the early hours of 2 April, Argentine forces invaded the Falkland Isles. On the evening of 30 March, 1982, Commander David Hall, chief engineer of the British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror received a telephone call giving him the order to 'store for war'. ![]()
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