Atrocity on the Atlantic
Attack on a Hospital Ship During the Great War
Published on 13. February 2024
240 pages
978-1-4597-5136-1 (ISBN)
Description
- The first book on an extraordinary moment in military naval history with long-lasting legal repercussions
- The HMHS Llandovery Castle was a hospital ship sunk on 27 June 1918 by a German U-boat
- Author is an experienced and award-winning historical true crime writer with a knack to bring out incredible stories from archives; his most recent history book The Beatle Bandit won a Crime Writers of Canada Award
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04/2024
Dundurn Press
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Nate Hendley is a journalist and author of several books, primarily on crime-related subjects. His book The Beatle Bandit (about a murderous 1964 bank heist) won the Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence for Non-Fiction in 2022. He lives in Toronto.
Content
- Introduction
- One: "Do You Think There Is Any Hope For Us?"
- Two: Floating hospital
- Three: "Hospital Ship Sinkings were Foul Murder"
- Four: "An Intensity of Feeling"
- Five: Criminal Orders
- Six: Disappearing from Memory
- Seven: In the Wake of the Llandovery Castle
- Eight: Centenary
- Afterword
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Sources
- Bibliography
- Image Credits
- Index
- About the Author
