The blockade busters / by Ralph Barker.
نوع المادة : نصالناشر:Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen and Sword Maritime, 2005وصف:224 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, 1 map, portraits ; 25 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
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- 1844152820 (hbk)
- 9781844152827 (hbk)
- D771 B28 2005
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | D771 B28 2005 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010000258037 |
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D770 W44 2006 Bitter ocean : the Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1945 / | D770 W68 2008 In the shadow of the battleship: considering the cruisers of World War II / | D770 W68 2008 In the shadow of the battleship: considering the cruisers of World War II / | D771 B28 2005 The blockade busters / | D771 B3726 2004 Hitler's admirals / | D771 B3726 2004 Hitler's admirals / | D771 B38813 1974 Hitler's naval war / |
Originally published: London : Chatto and Windus, 1976.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-215) and index.
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 strenghtened German defences and the wrath of severe weather.