28-year-old Chris Parry was an officer on a Wessex III helicopter on HMS Antrim during the Falklands War. Built in the 1960s, Antrim was primarily designed to deal with the threat from Soviet missiles. But in the early months of 1982 she found herself heading south to spearhead the operation to recover South Georgia from the Argentinians.

Chris Parry's diary, written every evening during the conflict immediately after the events described,was lost for thirty years. It is a vivid and eloquent reminder of the dangers and hardships endured by our forces during the conflict.