Carrier Glorious

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Edition: First Paperback Edition
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 05 Aug 1999
ISBN 10: 0304352446
ISBN 13: 9780304352449
Book Overview: In June 1940, after the disastrous campaign in Norway, HMS Glorious was sent to the Norwegian coast to assist in the evacuation of British, Polish and French troops. After several tense days, the ship was on her way home when she encountered the two German battle-cruisers, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. In a ferocious gun battle lasting over an hour Glorious and the two destroyers escorting her were all sunk. Drawing on Admiralty records and the testimony of those who served on Glorious, John Winton reveals the incredible human folly that led almost inexorably to this tragic end, against a background of one of the most disastrous campaigns of the Second World War for Britain and her allies