Description
| Product ID: | 9780711276161 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Canberra in the Falklands War |
| Subtitle: | A Very Strange Way to go to War |
| Authors: | Author: Andrew Vine |
| Page Count: | 336 |
| Subjects: | European history, British & Irish history, History, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Military history: post WW2 conflicts |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This is the extraordinary story untold until now, of how unlikely combatants like waiters, cooks, nurses and cleaners who never in their dreams imagined they could be caught up in a war, found themselves on the front line at the very end of the world. This fascinating and insightful book tells the thrilling story of the SS Canberra, the luxury passenger liner which was requesitioned as a troop transport in the Falkands War. Against all odds she surived, playing a vital role as a hospital ship, and at the end of the war she arrived back in Southampton to a hero's welcome, where she became fondly known as the Great White Whale. This is the extraordinary and, as yet, untold story of how the crew of a luxury ocean liner — waiters, cooks, nurses and cleaners — found themselves suddenly thrust onto the front line. |
| Imprint Name: | Aurum |
| Publisher Name: | Quarto Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-03-01 |
