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Lord Franks (author), Alex Danchev (foreword)

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Oliver Shewell Franks, Baron Franks OM GCMG KCB CBE PC DL (16 February 1905 – 15 October 1992) was an. .

Oliver Shewell Franks, Baron Franks OM GCMG KCB CBE PC DL (16 February 1905 – 15 October 1992) was an English civil servant and philosopher who has been described as 'one of the founders of the postwar world'. The Falklands War, also known as the Falklands Conflict, Falklands Crisis, Malvinas War, South Atlantic Conflict, and the Guerra del Atlántico Sur, was a ten-week war between Argentina and the United Kingdom over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands, and its territorial dependency, the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

Lord Franks was often called upon by the government of the day to chair important inquiries, and he is best known for his report in the aftermath of the Falklands War which ultimately exonerated the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her government from charges of having failed t.

Lord Franks was often called upon by the government of the day to chair important inquiries, and he is best known for his report in the aftermath of the Falklands War which ultimately exonerated the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her government from charges of having failed to heed warning signals of an Argentine invasion.

In 1983 the Franks Committee reported on the decisions taken in the run-up to the Falklands War. Senior civil servant Lord Franks chaired a committee of six Privy Counsellors, who sat in private. There had been much speculation about whether the Falklands conflict could have been prevented, if the government had acted differently. For some years Britain and Argentina had been discussing possible resolutions to the dispute over the Falkland Islands. In 1977, at a previous time of heightened tension, Britain had covertly sent a small naval force to the area, but as tensions rose in 1982 no such.

Lord Franks was often called upon by the government of the day to chair important inquiries, and he is best known for his report in the aftermath of the Falklands War which ultimately exonerated the Prime Minister Margaret. a b c d Detail taken from the Obituary of Lord Franks dated 16th October 1992 in a British national newspaper. University of Oxford, Commission of Inquiry Evidence; University of Oxford, Hebdomadal Council, Commission of Inquiry;.

National Bibliography Number: B9222427. Personal Name: Franks, Oliver,, Baron, 1905-. Publication, Distribution, et. London.