Author: Pearce, Frank,
Title: LAST CALL FOR HMS EDINBURGH - A Story Of The Russian Convoys.
Description: Pan, London, 1982, 1st in imprint, paperback, 202pp, 4pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, [vi] ads., pictorial upper wrapper by Geoff Hunt, an account of the last voyage of the cruiser Edinburgh in May 1942. Three days out of Murmansk with the convoy QP11 she was torpedoed by U-456. Badly crippled she attempted to return to Murmansk only to be caught by a German destroyer flotilla and topedoed again, taking fifty-seven dead and her cargo of five tons of Russian gold bullion to the bottom of the Barents Sea, a little rubbed at extrems., light creasing, edges tanned, good plus,
Keywords: war ww2 navy convoy murmansk russia bullion edinburgh
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Title: LAST CALL FOR HMS EDINBURGH - A Story Of The Russian Convoys.
Description: Pan, London, 1982, 1st in imprint, paperback, 202pp, 4pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, [vi] ads., pictorial upper wrapper by Geoff Hunt, an account of the last voyage of the cruiser Edinburgh in May 1942. Three days out of Murmansk with the convoy QP11 she was torpedoed by U-456. Badly crippled she attempted to return to Murmansk only to be caught by a German destroyer flotilla and topedoed again, taking fifty-seven dead and her cargo of five tons of Russian gold bullion to the bottom of the Barents Sea, a little rubbed at extrems., light creasing, edges tanned, good plus,
Keywords: war ww2 navy convoy murmansk russia bullion edinburgh
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- Book number: 45155
- Book number: 45155
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