Название: Secrets of the Conqueror: The Untold Story of Britain's Most Famous Submarine
Автор: Stuart Prebble
Издательство: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571290337
Год: 2012
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 288
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 7,3 МБ
Язык: Английский
HMS Conqueror is Britain's most famous submarine. It is the only sub since World War Two to have sunk an enemy ship. Conqueror's sinking of the Argentine cruiser Belgrano made inevitable an all-out war over the future of the Falkland Islands, and sparked off one of the most controversial episodes of twentieth century politics. The controversy was fuelled by a war-diary kept by an officer on board HMS Conqueror, and as a young TV producer in the 1980s Stuart Prebble scooped the world by locating the diary's author and getting his story on the record. But in the course of uncovering his Falklands story, Stuart Prebble also learned a military secret which could have come straight out of a Cold War thriller.