Название: Hearts of Oak. The Human Tragedy of HMS Royal Oak Автор: Dilip Sarkar Издательство: Amberley Publishing ISBN: 1848689446 Год: 2010 Формат: PDF Страниц: 154 Размер: 32,0 МБ Язык: Английский
The story of the sinking of the HMS Royal Oak by German submarine which cost the lives of 833 Royal Navy sailors. HMS Royal Oak was a Revenge-class battleship of the British Royal Navy, infamously torpedoed at anchor by the German submarine U-47 on 14 October 1939. Royal Oak was anchored at Scapa Flow in Orkney, Scotland when she became the first of the five Royal Navy battleships and battle cruisers sunk in the Second World War. The loss of life was heavy: of Royal Oak's complement of 1,234 men and boys, 833 were killed that night or died later of their wounds. The raid made an immediate celebrity and war hero out of the German U-boat commander, Gunther Prien, who became the first submarine officer to be awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
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Hearts of Oak. The Human Tragedy of HMS Royal Oak 
