Sinking of the Prince of Wales & Repulse
The End of the Battleship Era
Published on 22. June 2014
366 pages
978-1-4738-3923-6 (ISBN)
Description
On the third day of the war with Japan, two Royal Navy capital ships were sunk off Malaya by air torpedo attack. They had not requested the air support that could have saved them and 840 men died in the battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the battle cruiser HMS Repulse. The authors re-create for the reader not only what happened, but also what it was like for the men involved. They dispose of several myths to explain the events of those confused hours, and address the uncertainty, controversy and strong emotions that surrounded the militarily disastrous sinkings.
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Martin Middlebrook | Patrick Mahoney
Sinking of the Prince of Wales & Repulse: The End of the Battleship Era
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01/2004
Leo Cooper Ltd
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Content
- Cover
- Halftitle
- Titlepage
- Contents
- List of Maps and Text Figures
- List of Plates
- Introduction
- 'A Sword at Our Hearts'
- 'Sinister Twilight'
- 'A Decisive Deterrent'
- Force G
- The Voyage East
- Singapore
- The Sweep
- Kuantan
- Plates
- The First Round
- The Lull
- The Final Round
- 'Abandon Ship'
- The Rescue
- The Aftermath
- An Analysis
- The Years that Followed
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Appendix 3
- Appendix 4
- Appendix 5
- Appendix 6
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- Index
