Description
Book SynopsisThe complete and authoritative account of the sinking of the HMAS Sydney, and the finding of her wreck in 2008.
On 19 November 1941, the pride of the Australian Navy, the light cruiser Sydney, fought a close-quarters battle with the German armed raider HSK Kormoran off Carnarvon on the West Australian coast. Both ships sank - and not one of the 645 men on board the Sydney survived.
Was Sydney''s captain guilty of negligence by allowing his ship to manoeuvre within range of Kormoran''s guns? Did the Germans feign surrender before firing a torpedo at the Sydney as she prepared to despatch a boarding party?
This updated edition covers the discovery of the wreck - with the light this sheds on the events of that day in 1941, and the closure it has brought to so many grieving families.
''Tom Frame has produced the most comprehensive and compelling account of the loss of HMAS Sydney to date
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A major work of Australian maritime history. - Sydney Morning Herald
Frame has produced an entertaining, passionate and complex work of popular history in which the subsequent efforts to piece together the evidence provide a good dose of detective story. - Courier-Mail
An excellent and objective analysis, and well worth reading for anyone with an interest in naval history or the curious behaviour of those writing history with axes to grind. - Newcastle Herald
Tom Frame has written a number of books on Australian naval events. With this book, he has produced a most comprehensive and interesting account of the loss of the Sydney. - Australian Defence Magazine
Frame's story is a balanced and comprehensive account of the now complete Sydney story. - The Launceston Examiner
For those with an interest in our naval, maritime or military history, this is an absorbing account of one of our most famous ships and her devastating loss. - Manly Daily
Tom Frame has produced the most comprehensive and compelling account of the loss of HMAS Sydney to date. His judgements are fair and his conclusions reasoned. If you only read one book on this tragic event in Australian naval history, and want all the facts and theories presented in a balanced way, Tom Frame's book is for you. - Vice Admiral Russ Shalders AO CSC RANR Chief of Navy, 2005-08
