In 1943, Churchill's War Cabinet met to discuss the opening of a new
front. Its battles would be fought amidst the glaciers of the Antarctic.
Intended to safeguard the Falkland Islands from Japanese invasion and to
deny German U-boats, the expedition also sought to re-assert British
territorial rights in the face of Argentine provocation. Indeed, the
British bases secretly established in 1944 would also go on to play a
vital part in a global "conflict: " the Cold War. Operation Tabarin
tells for the first time the story of one of the most curious episodes
in what Ernest Shackleton called "the white warfare of the south."