Though he struggles occasionally to be fair, he always ends up throwing out a ""but"" or an ""although"" for Britain's cause. Second, a truly objective story would have to be told by someone shielded from the passions that this crisis invoked on both sides. First, as one wag has written, the battle over the Falklands was ""like two bald men fighting over a comb"" a history of that straggle proves just as interesting. Middlebrook (The Peenemunde Raid, The Battle of Hamburg, The First Day on the Somme, among others) has two strikes against him for starters. The Kaiser's Battle with much co-operation from Neville Mackinder.A military history of the 41-day war waged in 1982 between Britain and Argentina for the Falkland (or Malvinas, if you're Argentinian) Islands, written, one hastens to add, by a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.The First Day on the Somme with much co-operation from John Howlett.
Middlebrook has also written two books on the Falklands War, one from the British and Falkland Islanders' perspective and one from the Argentinian perspective. A number of them again deal with a single day of action ( The Nuremberg Raid, The Schweinfurt–Regensburg Mission and The Peenemünde Raid) while others cover longer air battles ( The Battle of Hamburg and The Berlin Raids). Middlebrook's Second World War books concentrate on the air war. Middlebrook gave the same single-day treatment to 21 March 1918, the opening of the German Spring Offensive, in The Kaiser's Battle. This is a detailed study of the single worst day for the British Army. Middlebrook wrote his first book The First Day on the Somme (1971) following a visit to the First World War battlefields of France and Belgium in 1967. Middlebrook subsequently spent three years in Territorial Army service. He was commissioned in the Royal Army Service Corps (RASC), and served as a Motor Transport Officer in the Suez Canal Zone and Aquaba, Jordan. Middlebrook was educated at various schools, including Ratcliffe College, Leicester.
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