Oliver Balch

How I narrowly escaped joining Argentina’s ‘disappeared’

The war reporter Julian Manyon relives his terrifying ordeal at the hands of General Galtieri’s henchmen in April 1982

General Galtieri makes a public address in Buenos Aires at the time of Julian Manyon’s kidnapping. [Getty Images]
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  • Kidnapped by the Junta: Inside Argentina’s Wars with Britain and Itself

    Julian Manyon

    Icon Books, pp. 336, £20

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