Item #1682 The Sinking of the Lancastria Britain's Greatest Maritime Disaster and Churchill's Cover-up. Jonathan FENBY.

The Sinking of the Lancastria Britain's Greatest Maritime Disaster and Churchill's Cover-up

London: Simon & Schuster, 2005. Octavo, hardcover, xiv, 270 pp., plates. A near-fine copy with the dust-jacket. In June 1940, thousands of British soldiers and airmen left behind in France after the Dunkirk evacuation died after their troopship, the Lancastria, was hit by a German dive bomber. It was the deadliest maritime disaster in British history. Item #1682
ISBN: 0743259300

Price (AUD): $45.00

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