The sinking of the Lancastria during WWII remains Britain's worst maritime disaster. I had no idea that there were lots of troops left in France after Operation Dynamo and I suspect I was in the same boat (so to speak) as much of the population. Dedicated to honoring the memory of the Lancastria Fenby is forced into a tradeoff between detail and drama.
The sinking of the Lancastria was a tragedy. Jonathan Fenby's research is thorough and worthy. The sinking feeling when you thought you had a sub but your teacher appears. A fair bit of the book is about those campaigns and particularly the political bickering which accompanied them - including a proposed Franco-British Union, something the odious Jean Monnet had his finger in. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. I have a particular. This photo is one of many taken by Frank Clements (please take a look at his web page at lancastria.org.uk) on the day at least 4000 people lost their lives during the evacuation of allied and British forces and many refugees when the RMS Lancastria sank after being attacked near the French port of Saint Nazaire on 17th June 1940. This book is important. The bombing of an over-crowded troopship in port isn't remotely like the torpedoing of a liner at sea and even less like a liner hitting an iceberg.
I also felt lost around some of the history, as I'm not really familiar with the evacuation from Dunkirk or most of the political players from the time. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations We’d love your help.
This book goes through the stories of many survivors starting from the start of the Fall of France to the arrival of survivors home. The sinking of the Nestor.
More discussion of this and how intentional it was, not very I suspect, would have been a very valuable addition to the book.
Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. Off Normandy, an armada of small boats did an amazing job of work ferrying as many troops as possible safely home to England.
My grandfather was a survivor of the sinking of the Lancastria, although not something I knew about until fairly recent years. They had underwater pictures of the wreck before diving was banned in 2006.
That said, suppression of the disaster does seem to have helped the legend of Dunkirk grow. The chapters that describe the sinking bring the horror of the disaster vividly to life and are expertly woven together from multiple accounts. The Sinking of the Lancastria: The Twentieth Century's Deadliest Naval Disaster and Churchill's Plot to Make It Disappear
A well researched account of this unfortunately little known incident.
Finally, there was very little about "Churchill's Plot to Make It Disappear." In these strange days of quarantine and isolation, books can be a mode of transport. Published
With 4,000 soldiers, women, and children dead — and some estimates as high as 6,000 — the disaster would eclipse that of both the Lusitania and the Titanic.
Immediately after they boarded, the ship was dive-bombed by the German Luftwaffe, the 17,000-ton Lancastria sank, and hell on earth ensued. It is a very moving read in as much as the what ifs and whys that it highlights mean this tragedy may have been avoided. My French mother in England was waiting for him to return and being a soldier he did not get back immediately to London from his post and she decided to return to France to rejoin her own mother in Paris as he was missing in action. Those who died and those who survived deserve to have the facts gathered and memorialized. A Briiliant Tribute to those who persished on board the luxury RMS Lancastria.
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Please try again Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway Gripping and moving, LANCASTRIA tells one of the great forgotten stories of the Second World War.
Although the official death toll was listed as approximately 3500, unofficial totals put the number killed at up to 6000, making the sinking of the Lancastria one of the worst naval disasters in history.
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My late father was on the Lancastria when she was sunk but he would never talk about it and I had to find out about it from books. Fourtuneaty for me he wasn’t on it.
Denby has illuminated this dark moment in history for all to see, exposing the fact that cover-up is never a good thing, no matter how bitter the truth may be. Finally, there was very little about "Churchill's Plot to Make It Disappear."
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