Sydney Cipher and Search: Solving the Last Great Naval Mystery of the Second World Wa

HORE, Captain Peter

ISBN 10: 190626614X / ISBN 13: 9781906266141

Editore: Seafarer, 2009

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• Titolo: Sydney Cipher and Search: Solving the Last Great Naval Mystery of the Second World Wa
• Editore: Seafarer
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 190626614X
• ISBN 13: 9781906266141
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Brand New
• Peso: 0,09 chilogrammi

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Sydney, Cipher and Search: The Inside Story provides a fascinating and exclusive insight into how Captain Peter Hore solved the last great naval mystery of the Second World War. Going behind-the-scenes of a ten-year investigation, in this DVD the author himself tells us how he travelled the world to carry out research in dusty archives and museums, as well as interviewing key eye-witnesses to the November 1941 battle in which the cruiser HMAS Sydney II was lost, along with all 645 members of her ship s company. Peter Hore reveals how the trail of clues took him from the UK to Germany, South America and Australia, enabling him to clarify vital aspects in the investigation, including breaking a code that had remained a mystery for more than six decades. Covering some aspects not found in the book Sydney, Cipher And Search , this video companion, by 112 Productions on behalf of Seafarer Books and with a script by Iain Ballantyne - contains an absorbing main feature outlining Peter s odyssey to solve the mystery of HMAS Sydney s loss. The 56-minute DVD also includes five short modules in which Peter Hore provides further insights into how he cleared the fog of myths surrounding Sydney s loss. It is a tale worthy of detective fiction, only in this case what we find out in Sydney, Cipher and Search: The Inside Story is true.

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In November 1941 the Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney, with a crew of 645, disappeared off the coast of Western Australia. When German sailors picked up from lifeboats claimed that their ship, the Kormoran--a lightly armed merchant raider--had sunk the pride of the Australian navy theories sprang up to explain the loss. Had a second German warship been involved, or a Japanese submarine, even though Japan was not yet in the war? Based on the German coded accounts and interviews with German survivors, this book pieces together what really happened in the desperate fight between the two ships, whose wrecks were finally located 10,000 feet down on the floor of the Indian Ocean in March 2008.