Description
Title: Who Sank the Sydney?
Author: Montgomery, Michael
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition
Publication Date: 1981
ISBN: 0436284472
Cover: Hard Cover with Dust Jacket – 242 pages
Comments: In February 1941, HMAS Sydney, glamour ship of the Royal Australian Navy in World War II, returned from the Mediterranean to a tumultuous welcome in Australia. The Sydney had crowned her service there with the Royal Navy by sinking the Italian ship Bartolomeo Colleoni, described as the fastest cruiser in the world.
Nine months later the Sydney had disappeared off the coast of Western Australia following an action against the German raider Kormoran. Three hundred and eighteen men from the Kormoran were eventually rescued, but the Sydney’s entire complement of six hundred and forty five men were lost.
Conflicting evidence has made it difficult to reconstruct what happened on the night of 19 November 1941.
In Who Sank The Sydney?, Michael Montgomery examines the various accounts of the disappearance to build up an exciting picture of the encounter between the Sydney and the Kormoran and to provide solutions to hitherto unanswered questions about this ‘most curious incident of the seas’.
