The last big gun : at war & at sea with HMS Belfast
Lavery, Brian2015
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Total copies: 1
As she lay in dry dock, devastatingly damaged by one of Hitler's newly deployed magnetic mines after barely two months in service, few could have predicted the illustrious career that lay ahead for the cruiser HMS Belfast. After three years of repairs she would go on to play a critical role in the protection of the Arctic Convoys, would fire one of the opening shots at D-Day and continue supporting the Operation Overlord landings for five weeks. In 'The Last Big Gun' Brian Lavery employs his trademark wide-ranging narrative style and uses the microcosm of the ship to tell the wider story of the naval war at sea and vividly portray the realities for all of life aboard a Second World War battleship.
Main title:
The last big gun : at war & at sea with HMS Belfast / by Brian Lavery.
Author:
Imprint:
London : The Pool of London Press, 2015.
Collation:
376 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781910860014 (hbk)1910860018 (hbk)
Dewey class:
359.8353 LAV359.8353
LC class:
V820.5
Language:
English
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BRN:
294013