I've just finished reading Four Weeks in May - a captain's story of war at sea. It's about the role of HMS Coventry in the Falklands war. I read a couple of indifferent reviews about this book, but once I'd started reading it I couldn't stop, finishing it in little over a day.
The author (Coventry's captain at the time) does a good job of describing life at sea whilst at war up to the eventual sinking, and life after having lost the ship. It's a good balance of technical operations, the people involved, and describing the loss.
It still confirms the theory that it was all "a close run thing". Landing ground forces before having held the skies meant that the British sacrificed ships to perform the landing.
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