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    Book Title
    HMS Gloucester: The Untold Story
    Genre
    Maritime history
    ISBN
    9781844151226

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    On 22 May 1941 the cruiser HMS Gloucester (The Fighting 'G') was sunk by aircraft of the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Crete. Of her crew of 807 men, only 83 survived to come home at the end of the War in 1945. It is unknown how many men went down with the ship and how many died in the sea clinging to rafts and flotsam during the many hours before the survivors were finally rescued by boats searching for German soldiers who were victims of a previous British naval attack. The fact that Allied destroyers were in the proximity and were not sent to the rescue was a result of poor naval communications and indecision by the local fleet commanders. Gloucester had been low on anti-aircraft ammunition and her crew exhausted before being dispatched from the main fleet to search for the stricken destroyer HMS Greyhound. With only HMS Fiji as company, she came under attack from German bombers and when Gloucester's ammunition was finally exhausted she suffered several direct hits and was set ablaze from stem to stem and left out of control. This book looks at the ship's history and operational successes from her launching in 1937 to her final demise. It includes many first-hand accounts from the surviving crew and the author's painstaking research has revealed the awful truth about one of the Royal Navy's greatest disasters during World War Two.

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    Publisher
    Pen & Sword Books LTD
    ISBN-13
    9781844151226
    eBay Product ID (ePID)
    90304937

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    Subject
    Government, History
    Publication Year
    2004
    Number of Pages
    256 Pages
    Publication Name
    Hms Gloucester: the Untold Story
    Language
    English
    Type
    Textbook
    Author
    Ken Otter
    Format
    Hardcover

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    United Kingdom
    Title_Author
    Ken Otter

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