The Blockade Busters - Couverture rigide

Barker, Ralph

 
9781844152827: The Blockade Busters
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1844152820 ISBN 13 : 9781844152827
Editeur : Leo Cooper Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

Recounts one of the greatest sea stories of World War II. It is the story of how George Binney, a 39 year-old civilian working in neutral Sweden when Norway was overrun by the Germans in 1940, set about running vital cargoes of Swedish ball-bearings and special steels to Britain through the blockaded Skagerrak, where German air strength was dominant and where the Royal Navy dare not trespass. Despite Admiralty gloom and in the face of political objections that were overcome by Binney's persistence, five ships carrying a year's supply of valuable materials for the expanding British war industries were successfully sailed to Britain in January 1941. A following attempt was not as successful and ended when six ships were sunk or scuttled. But then came the saga of the Little Ships, the motor gunboats flying the Red Duster that operated out of the Humber to and from the Swedish coast in the winter of 1943/44, defying the strengthened German defences and the wrath of severe weather.

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À propos de l?auteur

Ralph Barker joined the RAF in 1940 as a radio operator/air gunner and logged 2,000 flying hours before he was demobilised in 1946. He later rejoined the RAF and retired from it in 1961 to write full-time as a journalist on several leading British national newspapers. He has many well-known books to his name as has been widely acclaimed by reviewers.

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Éditeur
Leo Cooper Ltd
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1844152820
ISBN 13 
9781844152827
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
224
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Personne responsable
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