HMAS Sydney

<p><b>The complete and authoritative account of the sinking of the HMAS<i> Sydney</i>, and the finding of her wreck in 2008.</b><br><br> On 19 November 1941, the pride of the Australian Navy, the light cruiser <i>Sydney</i>, fought a close-quarters battle with the German armed raider HSK <i>Kormoran</i> off Carnarvon on the West Australian coast. Both ships sank - and not one of the 645 men on board the <i>Sydney </i>survived. <br><br> Was <i>Sydney</i>''s captain guilty of negligence by allowing his ship to manoeuvre within range of <i>Kormoran</i>''s guns? Did the Germans feign surrender before firing a torpedo at the <i>Sydney</i> as she prepared to despatch a boarding party? <br><br> 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. <br><br> <b>''Tom Frame has produced the most comprehensive and compelling account of the loss of HMAS <i>Sydney</i> 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.</b></p>