Sailors behind the medals : waging war at sea, 1939-1945 /
The story of the Royal Navy in the Second World War is an epic, consisting both of dramatic battles such as the River Plate and Matapan, and drawn-out campaigns such as the escort of convoys to Malta and northern Russia. The author examines the careers of twenty-three sailors who took part in these...
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Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK :
Pen & Sword Maritime,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1 Death of a Pocket Battleship
- ch. 2 `The Navy's Here!'
- ch. 3 Sole Survivor
- ch. 4 Dunkirk
- ch. 5 A Forlorn Hope
- ch. 6 Rescue in the North Atlantic
- ch. 7 Massacre at Matapan
- ch. 8 Kiwi at Crete
- ch. 9 Orion Under the Stukas
- ch. 10 One of Ark Royal's Engineers
- ch. 11 Born Survivor
- ch. 12 Dido in the Med
- ch. 13 Operation Mincemeat
- ch. 14 Operation Pedestal
- ch. 15 Desert Water Rats
- ch. 16 The Ship that Torpedoed Herself
- ch. 17 Russian Gold
- ch. 18 Convoy Rescue Ship Commander
- ch. 19 Arctic Convoys
- ch. 20 The Battle of North Cape
- ch. 21 Landing Craft Assault
- ch. 22 The Divine Wind
- ch. 23 Fighting Schoolmaster.