Sebastián Carassai is a CONICET researcher, Professor of Foundations of Society and the State at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, and member of the Centre for Intellectual History at the Universidad de Quilmes. He is the author of The Argentine Silent Majority: Middle Classes, Politics, Violence, and Memory in the Seventies and coeditor, with Kevin Coleman, of Coups d'État in Cold War Latin America, 1964–1982.

'This excellent and extremely well-documented book explores how, like the fog and clouds that frequently surround the South Atlantic islands, the relationship between Argentina, the UK, and the islanders has been obscured by a history of mistrust, stereotypes, political/economic interests and ambitions of all involved actors. Carassai masterfully unpacks this multi-dimensional shifting chess game in which neither conflict was inevitable, nor tensions prevented opportunities for exchanges and collaboration.' Jorge Nállim, University of Manitoba

• 1. Introduction; 2. Travellers (1936 –1971); 3. Islanders (1960 –1971); 4. Communications (1971 –1982); 5. Singers (1941 –1982); Epilogue: 'Just the wind has not changed.'; Bibliography; Index.