Unsung Hero of the Falklands War

The contribution of Commodore Michael Clapp has been overlooked when compared with the other senior Falklands commanders and the time is ripe to redress the balance.

Following a career in the British civil service, Anthony J Cumming earned his PhD at the University of Plymouth and won the University of London's Julian Corbett Prize for Research in Modern Naval History. He is the author of several articles and two books on naval and air force history including Battle for Britain: Inter-service Rivalry between the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy, 1909-40 and is the editor of In Action with Destroyers 1939-1945: The Wartime Memoirs of Commander J A J Dennis DSC RN. He lives in Devon.