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

Captain Peter Hore

ISBN 10: 1591148375 / ISBN 13: 9781591148371

Editore: Naval Institute Press November 2009, 2009

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• Titolo: Sydney, Cipher, and Search: Solving the Last Great Naval Mystery of the Second World War
• Editore: Naval Institute Press November 2009
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1591148375
• ISBN 13: 9781591148371
• Rilegatura: Trade Paperback
• Condizione: Used - Very Good
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  • History - War: World War II

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<p>In November 1941 the Australian light cruiser HMAS <i>Sydney</i>, with a crew of 645, disappeared off the coast of Western Australia. When German sailors picked up from lifeboats claimed that their ship, the <i>Kormoran</i>--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.</p>