Hostages to fortune : Winston Churchill and the loss of the Prince of Wales and Repulse
Nicholson, Arthur2005
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'Hostages to Fortune' tells the story of how the British battleship 'Prince of Wales' and the battlecruiser 'Repulse', sent to the Far East at Churchill's insistence in an attempt to halt the expansion of the Japanese Empire, came to be sunk by Japanese aircraft on 10 December 1941.
Main title:
Hostages to fortune : Winston Churchill and the loss of the Prince of Wales and Repulse / Arthur Nicholson ; foreword by Sir Henry Leach.
Author:
Imprint:
Stroud : Sutton, 2005.
Collation:
xviii, 234 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-228) and index.
ISBN:
9780750939485 (hbk)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
106843