Who Sank the Sydney?

Cassell, Sydney, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. First impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 242 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Mild age tanning throughout. Dust Jacket worn at edges, small chips and tears, and is foxed here and there. Previous owner's gift annotation. Edges browned slightly. The boards are worn and rubbed with small chips.. This BOOK IS IN STOCK and READY TO MAIL NOW. Your book when ordered will be securely packed and promptly dispatched by Great Southern Books. In February 1941, HMAS Sydney, a glamour ship of the Royal Australian Navy in World War II, returned from the Mediterranean to a tumultuous welcome in Australia. Nine months later the Sydney had disappeared off the coast of Western Australia following an action against the German raider Kormoran. Three hundred and eight men from the Kormoran were eventually requested, but the Sydney's entire complement of six hundred and forty-five men was lost, making her the largest ship in the whole course of the War to go down with all hands. Since this book was first published in Australia in 1981 much more evidence has come to light to support Michael Montgomery's theories of a major cover-up in high places. In particular, he demonstrates that the Navy suspected the Japanese involvement almost immediately, and that on November 26ty Churchill sent Roosevelt a telegram which coursed him to break off negotiations with Japan. Pearl Harbour followed a fortnight later; was the Sydney thus the ?Lusitania? of World War II? Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Military & Warfare; Australia; 1940s; History. ISBN: 0726954764. ISBN/EAN: 9780726954764. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 4602. . 9780726954764