Battleship: The Loss of the Prince of Wales and the Repulse
by Martin Middlebrook
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On the third day of the war with Japan, two Royal Navy capital ships were sunk off Malaya by air torpedo attack. They had not requested the air support that could have saved them and 840 men died in the battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the battle cruiser HMS Repulse. The authors re-create for the reader not only what happened, but also what it was like for the men involved. They dispose of several myths to explain the events of those confused hours, and address the uncertainty, controversy show more and strong emotions that surrounded the militarily disastrous sinkings. show lessTags
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Well written and systematic account of the tragic end of these ships. Presents a balanced account of the performance of the crews, commanders and theatre level command. Does a good job of explaning how (un)lucky the placement of the first torpedo hit on the PoW was. Based on events of the war to date, the use of these ships was not rash and uninformed, as tends to be the common judgement passed.
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Martin Middlebrook has written many other books that deal with important turning-point in the two world wars, including The First Day on the Somme, The Kaiser's Battle, The Peeneminde Raid, The Somme Battlefields (with Mary Middlebrook), The Nuremberg Raid 30-31st March 1944 and Arnhem 1944 (all republished and in print with Pen and Sword).
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- Important places
- South China Sea
- Important events
- World War II (1939 | 1945); World War II, Pacific Theater (1941-12-07 | 1945-09-02); Sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse (1941-12-10)
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- English, German
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