Author: Rossiter, Mike,
Title: ARK ROYAL - The Life, Death and Rediscovery of the Legendary Second World War Aircraft Carrier.
Description: Corgi, London, 2007, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, 394pp, 24pp coloured and half tone ills., [vi] ads., half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the life of HMS Ark Royal, the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier launched in 1938 and one of the most sophisticated weapons at the disposal of the Admiralty in the early years of WW2, involved in a number of famous incidents before she was torpedoed by a German u-boat in the Mediterranean in 1941 and eventually sunk off Gibraltar, rediscovered by the author lying one kilometre below the surface in 2004, faint vertical creases to spine, edges tanned, near fine,

Keywords: war ww2 navy ark royal aircraft carrier


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