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An intimate portrait of the Parachute Regiment manages to capture the history of modern Britain – Rachel Seiffert loved it

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  • Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper

    Helen Parr

    Allen Lane, pp. 382

On the night of 13 June 1982, Dave Parr was hit by shellfire on Wireless Ridge. He was 19, a private in the Second Battalion the Parachute Regiment, and had just become one of the 255 British servicemen lost in the Falklands.

Helen Parr, his niece, was only seven at the time.

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