The Falklands Engagement

Love and war.

By: Tim Rees

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Amazon 5-star review: "The Falklands Engagement is a deeply moving novella that blends a powerful war memoir with a touching love story.

Tim Rees offers an honest, firsthand account of his experiences during the Falklands War, capturing both the arduous realities and the dark humour of military life. The fictional love story, told through letters between Tim and Elly, is the emotional core of the book.

It's a poignant and beautifully told narrative that explores the enduring power of love and hope in the face of conflict, and it left me genuinely moved."

A novella about two people separated by war and united through love.

The Falklands Engagement is a factually correct account of the author’s experience during the Falklands war, but the love story aspect is fictitious.

However, the love story has the potential of truth. Tim met ninety-two-year-old Connie in Port Stanley after the Argentinians had raised the white flag. Tim learned the wonderful old lady had been evicted from her home because the Argentinians wanted to use her house as the officers’ mess. Once Connie had her home back, she invited a couple of Welsh Guardsman to dinner as a way of thanking them for liberating the Falkland Islands, her home. Connie also invited some British nurses working at Port Stanley hospital. Tim was sat next to a nurse called Bronwen who was from Pontypridd, only a couple of miles away from Cardiff, where Tim grew up. Had they met in Wales, it’s perfectly possible they could have fallen in love …