The tin-pot foreign general and the old iron woman
Briggs, Raymond2013
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'The Tin-Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman' satirises the Falklands War of 1982: however, neither the Falkland Islands, the belligerent countries of the United Kingdom and Argentina, nor their leaders are named in the text. Instead, the British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and the Argentine dictator General Leopoldo Galtieri are presented as a pair of metal monsters who send men to fight over a 'sad little island' populated by a few shepherds who eat nothing but mutton.
Main title:
The tin-pot foreign general and the old iron woman / by Raymond Briggs.
Author:
Briggs, Raymond, author, artist
Publisher:
London : Penguin Books, 2013.London : Penguin Books, 2013.
Collation:
48 pages : chiefly illustrations (black and white)
Audience:
syl; sym.
ISBN:
9780141350981 (hbk)0141350989
Language:
English
Subject:
Index terms:
WarPoliticsDictatorsFalklands WarConflictsGovernmentsBritain1980s20th centuryArgentina
BRN:
889475
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